If the sitting legislators in the State Assembly prove lucky this lok Sabha elections, Uttar Pradesh could witness another “mini election” after May 16 as 34 sitting legislators, who are in the fray, would march into lok Sabha triggering by-elections in as many Assembly segments.
Amongst the legislators who are in the fray, 13 are from Samajwadi Party, followed by eight from Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), seven from the Congress, two from Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and one each from Rashtriya lok Dal (RlD) and the Apna Dal. Apna Dal legislator Anupriya Patel is contesting from Mirzapur lok Sabha seat in association with the BJP. She is the MlA from Rohniya Assembly segment in Varanasi.
Radhav lakhanpal is the BJP candidate from Sadar seat in Saharanpur Parliamentary constituency, while BJP legislature Party leader Hukum Singh is contesting from Kairana lok Sabha seat. Similarly, Kunwar Bhartendu Singh, the BJP MlA from Bijnore Sadar seat, is the lok Sabha candidate from Bijnor. BJP’s Dr Nepal Singh, who is leader of party in UP legislative Council, is in the fray from Rampur lok Sabha seat, while Uma Bharti, the BJP MlA from Charkhari in Mahoba, is contesting from Jhansi Parliamentary constituency.
Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti, the BJP MlA from Sadar seat in Hamirpur, is contesting from Fatehpur, while party MlA from Sirathu Assembly constituency in Kaushambi is in the fray from Phoolpur lok Sabha seat.
Kalraj Mishra, the MlA from lucknow (East), is contesting from Deoria Parliamentary constituency. SP’s Shahid Manzoor, the MlA from Kithore Assembly seat in Meerut, is the party candidate from Meerut lok Sabha seat, while Rameshwar Singh Yadav, the party MlA from Aliganj seat in Etah district, is the SP candidate from Farrukhabad Parliamentary constituency. Abhishek Mishra, the SP MlA from lucknow (North) and State Minister, is in the poll fray from lucknow lok Sabha seat, while Mitrasen Yadav and Ram Murti Verma, the legislators from Bikapur seat in Faizabad and Akbarpur seat in Ambedkar Nagar, are contesting on SP ticket from Faizabad and Ambedkar Nagar Parliamentary constituencies respectively.
Another SP MlA Nandita Shukla is in the electoral battle from Gonda lok Sabha seat. Mata Prasad Pandey and Parasnath Yadav, the MlAs from Itwa seat in Siddharthnagar and Malhani seat in Jaunpur, are the lok Sabha candidates from Dumariyaganj and Jaunpur parliamentary constituencies respectively. SP’s Kailash Chaurasiya and Surendra Patel are in the poll fray respectively from Varanasi and Mirzapur lok Sabha seats. They are MlAs from Mirzapur Sadar and Sevapuri Assembly seats respectively. Vinod Kumar, the SP MlA from Gonda Sadar seat, is the party candidate from Kaiserganj. BSP MlAs Krishna Kumar Ojha and Ram Prasad Chaudhary are the party nominees from Kaiserganj and Basti Parliamentary constituencies respectively. RlD’s Karta Bharana, the MlA from Khatauli in Muzaffarnagar district, is in the poll contest from Kairana lok Sabha seat, while Peace Party president Mohammad Ayub Khan, the MlA from Khalilabad Assembly seat, is the party candidate from Dumariyaganj lok Sabha seat.
Rita Bahuguna Joshi, the Congress MlA from lucknow cantonment, is contesting the lok Sabha elections from lucknow, while Kazim Ali, the party MlA from Swar Assembly area in Rampur, is now lok Sabha candidate from Rampur. Vivek Singh, the Congress MlA from Banda sadar seat, is the party nominee from Banda Parliamentary constituency.
Congress party’s lalitesh Tripathi and Mukesh Shrivastava are in the poll fray from Mirzapur and Kaiserganj seats respectively. The Congress has fielded its MlA Sanjay Jaiswal from Basti Parliamentary constituency while another MlA Sanjay Kapoor is contesting from Philibhit.