Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati released the second list of 100 candidates for the upcoming Assembly polls. So far, Muslims have been given a lion’s share and a total of 58 seats have been given to aspirants from the community. Mayawati would be releasing the third list on Saturday.
The candidates are mostly for Rohilkhand and Central parts of the State which go to polls in the second and third phases on February 15 and 19 respectively.
On Thursday, BSP had released the first list of 100 candidates covering the western parts which go to polls in the first two phases on February 11 and 15. There are 403 Assembly seats in UP and the BSP will be contesting alone.
The second list consists of candidates for lucknow and 17 other districts, namely Bareilly, Etawah, lakhimpur Kheri, Shahjahanpur, Kanpur, Kanpur Dehat and Unnao. The second list of the BSP include 27 Dalits, 22 Muslims, 13 Brahmins besides other backwards and upper castes.
In a rare move, Nand lal Kori, a Dalit, has been
fielded from Sisamau seat of Kanpur. Former UP Minister Nakul Dubey has been
given ticket from
Bakshi-ka-Talab in lucknow while in the rest of eight seats in lucknow, the party has fielded new faces including Satya Kumar Gautam (Malihabad-SC), Shivshankar Singh aka Shankari Singh (Sarojninagar), Arman Khan (lucknow West),
Ajay Srivastava (lucknow North), Saroj Shukla (lucknow East), Rajeev Srivastava (lucknow Central) Yogesh Dixit (lucknow Cantt) and Ram Bahadhur (Mohanlalganj-SC).
Earlier, Mayawati had announced that a major chunk of 113 seats will go to the upper castes with Brahmins, who will be getting the major share of 66 seats, Thakurs 36 and rest 11 will go to Kayasth, Vaishya and others. The Other Backward Castes (OBCs) would get 106 seats, while there would be 97 Muslim candidates in the fray with Dalits being fielded in 87 seats.
The list released on Friday include Pradeep Kumar Gangwar (Vilaspur), Dr Tanveer Ahmed Khan (Rampur), Radheshyam Shahi (Milak-SC), Dr Sanjeev lal (Dharaura), Jaidev Singh (Naugaon Sadat), Nausad Ali (Amroha), Ganga Saran (Hasanpur), Maharaj Singh Shakya (Mainpuri), Surendra Singh Yadav (Bhogaon), Ms Kamlesh Kumari (Kishni-SC), Dalvir Singh Pal (Karhal), Major Kailash (Bisauli-SC), Arshad Ali (Sahaswan), Ali Mushrat Ali Bittan (Bilsi), Bhupendra Singh Dadda (Badaun), Mohamed Rizwan (Shekhupur), Sinod Shakya (Dataganj), Naseem Ahmed (Bahedi), Sultan Beg (Meerganj), Suleman Beg (Bhojipura), Virendra Singh Gangwar (Nawabganj), Vijay Pal Singh (Faridpur-SC), Virendra Singh (Bithari Chainpur), Anees Akhed (Bareilly City), Rajendra Prasad Gupta (Bareilly Cantt), Agam Kumar Maurya (Anola), Arshad Khan (Philibhit), Dr Shailendra Singh Gangwar(Barkhera), Kumar Kishor Arvind (Puranpur-SC), Smt Divya (Bisalpur), Rajeev Kashyap (Katra), Neeraj Kushwaha (Jalalabad), Awadesh Kumar Verma (Tilhar), Gurubachan lal (Puwaya-SC), Mohamed Aslam Khan (Shahjahenpur), Rizwan Ali (Dadraul), Dr VK Agrawal (Paliya), Girja Shankar Singh (Nighasan), Birjswaroop Kanujiya (Golagokhrannath), Praveen Bhargawa (Shreenagar-SC), Shamshar Bhadhur (Dhauraura), Shashidhar Mishra aka Namey Maharaj (lakhimpur), Rajesh Gautam (KAsta-SC), Daud Ahmed (Mohamedi), Mahesh Chandra Mishra (Maholi), Asfaq Khan (Sitapur), Ramhet Bharti (Hargaon-SC), Jasmeer Ansari (laherpur), Nirmal Verma (Biswa), Mohamed Naseem (Sewata), Paduman Verma (Mehmodabad), Dr Harigovind Bhargawa (Sidhauli-SC), Manish Rawat (Mishrikh-SC), Anupam Dubey (Swaipur), Asif Khan (Sahabad), Dharamveer Singh (Hardoi), Meena Kumari (Gopamau-SC), Virendra Verma (Sandi-SC), Anurag Mishra (Bilgram Mallawa), Smt Neely Satyarthi (Balamau-SC), Pawan Kumar Singh (Sandila), Ramswaroop Gautam (Kayamganj-SC), Arun Kumar Mishra (Amritpur) Mohamed Umar Khan (|Farukabad), Nitin Singh Gemini Rajput (Bhojpur), Tahir Hussain Siddiqui (Chibramau), Vijay Singh (Terwa), Anurag Singh (Kannauj-SC), Surgesh Shaqya (Jaswantnagar), Narendra Nath Chaturvedi (Etawah), Raghvendra Gautam (Barthana-SC), Shivprasad Yadav (Vidhuna), Ram Kumar Awasthai (Dibyapur), Bhimrao Ambedkar (Auraiya-SC), Smt Ponam Sankhwar (Rasoolabad-SC), Satish Shukla (Akbarpur Raniya), Mahendra Katiyar (Sikendra), Dharampur Singh Bhadhuriya (Bhognipur), Kamlesh Chandra Diwakar (Bilhaur-SC), Ramprakash Kushwaha (Bithur), Deepu Kumar Nishad (Kalyanpur), Nirmal Tewari (Govindnagar), Abdul Haseeb (Aryanagar), Sandeep Sharma (Kidwainagar), Naseem Ahmed (Kanpur Cant), Saroj Kureil (Ghatampur-SC), Irshad Khan (Bangarmau), Rambaran Kureil (Safipur-SC), Radhelal Rawat (Mohan-SC).