Bahujan Samaj Party to contest all the 13 lok Sabha seats in Punjab and announced its candidates for four of the parliamentary seats on Saturday. Bhagwan Singh Chauhan from Hoshiarpur, Ram Kumar Prajapati from Ferozepur, Jarnail Singh Kamboj from Patiala and Sucha Singh Mann from Khadoor Sahib, BSP national general secretary Narendar Kashyap said.
Among the four candidates, two are from the SC and many from the backward classes, he added. "We are expecting early lok Sabha polls and accordingly we have started gearing up," he said.
Kashyap ruled out possibility of forging alliance with any party during lok Sabha polls. The candidates for the remaining nine seats would be picked up from a panel being drawn up for the purpose.
He said that all the four candidates were old workers of the party and their names had been recommended by respective district party units and cleared by the Party Chief Mayawati.