Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav on Saturday announced three more candidates for the coming UP Assembly by-elections. With Saturday’s announcement, the SP has announced the names of 10 party candidates for the 12 Assembly seats to which the by-elections are slated sometime in October along with one parliamentary constituency.
The SP has already announced the name of Tej Pratap Singh as its candidate for the by-poll to Mainpuri lok Sabha seat, which was vacated by Mulayam Singh Yadav on being elected from Azamgarh constituency also in the last parliamentary election.
SP general secretary Ram Gopal Yadav disclosed that the party chief had announced three more candidates for the UP Assembly by-polls. As per the announcement, former MlA Vachaspati Pasi will be fielded from Sirathu, Kaptan Singh Rajput from Charkhari and Mahendra Singh Patel from Rohania Assembly seats.
The party has already named former MlA Sanjay Garg for the Saharanpur City seat, Nahid Hassan for Kairana, Nawab Jaan Khan for Thakurdwara, Shiv Charan Prajapati for Hamirpur, Shabbir Ahmed Valmiki for Balha, Juhi Singh for lucknow East and Rani Ruchibira for Bijnor Assembly seats. The SP is yet to announce candidates from Noida and Nighasan seats.