Bahujan Samaj Party on Saturday announced a list of 54 candidates for the sixth phase of the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections.
The polling for the sixth phase will be held on March 3 in 57 assembly constituencies spread in 10 districts.
The BSP has fielded Khwaja Shamsuddin against Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath from Gorakhpur Sadar.
Besides, the BSP has fielded Santosh Tiwari from Fazil Nagar assembly seat of Kushinagar from where Swami Prasad Maurya is in the fray on Samajwadi Party ticket.
In the list released by BSP office in Lucknow, the names of the candidates for the assembly constituencies of Ambedkar Nagar, Balrampur, Siddharthnagar, Basti, Sant Kabir Nagar, Maharajganj, Gorakhpur, Kushinagar, Deoria and Ballia districts are included.
The BSP has also changed many candidates of Ambedkar Nagar, Siddharthnagar and Balrampur. Along with this, the names of the candidates of all the seats of Basti, Sant Kabir Nagar, Maharajganj, Gorakhpur, Kushinagar, Deoria and Ballia have been declared.
In 2017 polls, the Bharatiya Janata Party had outperformed other political parties by winning 325 seats along with allies in a house of 403. Out of this, BJP alone won 312 seats. BJP’s ally Apna Dal (Sonelal) bagged nine seats and Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party won four seats. Out of the total 403 seats, 54 were won by the Samajwadi Party-Congress alliance and 19 by the BSP.