Aam Aadmi Party, on Friday, released the third list of its 33 candidates, including a retired Naval officer and a former IAS officer, for the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections.
AAP's UP in-charge and Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Singh along with state president Sabhajit Singh announced the candidates at a press conference here.
Singh said that in the third list of candidates, tickets had been given to deserving people who had made significant contributions to society. He said that the third list included names of a former IAS officer, two doctors, nine post-graduates and 13 graduate candidates. Among the candidates, eight are from the general category, four are from the Muslim community, 11 from Other Backward Classes, and 10 from the Scheduled Caste category.
Singh said that the Aam Aadmi Party had so far announced 203 candidates in UP out of the total 403 Assembly seats.
AAP has given the ticket to former Navy personnel Ajay Kumar from Lucknow Cantonment, Vaibhav Shahi from Gorakhpur Rural, Satyendra Kori from Kanpur Nagar, Shiver Nagvanshi from Bareilly Cantonment, Dr Shiv Pratap Singh Rajput from Etawah, Nazir Khan from Fatehpur Sikri, Ajay Rai Munna from Ballia City, Arjun Singh from Nagina seat in Bijnor, Deepshikha from Orai seat in Jalaun, Dr Chandrakant Yadav from Kannauj, Arjun Singh Yadav from Etah and Abdul Rajik from Hussainganj seat in Fatehpur.