Even as Election Commission is scheduled to announce its verdict on the dispute in the Samajwadi Party over the election symbol of the party on Monday, the Mulayam faction on Sunday announced the list of 26 candidates for the assembly elections in Uttarakhand. Both Mulayam and Akhilesh faction have filed respective claims before the Election Commission claiming the name of the party and its election symbol Cycle.
The list of candidates was announced here on Sunday by Shivpal Yadav who still claims to be the state president of the party. Shivpal Yadav was removed from this post and replaced by Naresh Uttam during the national convention of the party here on January 1. Akhilesh Yadav was elected as the national president of the party by the convention.
The Uttarakhand list has six Muslims mostly in the plains and five women. The candidates are Premvati Devi (Bhagwanpur -Reserved) Vimla Rani (Jhavera-Reserved ), Kavita Rani (Jwalapur- Reserved) , Mustafa (Haridwar-rural), Narendra Gujjar(luxar), Kunwar Durgesh Pratap Singh (Mangalore), Shekh Ahmed Zama (Roorkee), Mohammad Irfan (Kaliyar), Shoib Ahmed (Haldwani) , Farrukh Khan (Ramnagar).
Yogendra Yadav (Sitarganj), Sanjay Singh (Kiccha), Ansuiya Rana (Nankamta), Manisha (Bajpur- Reserved) , Gopal Rawat (Badrinath),B l Tamta (Tharali Reserved), Bikram Kohli(Dwarhat), Jaswant Singh Adhikari(Almora), Ramesh Sanwal (Jogeshwar) , Hariram Shastri (Bageshwar),Suresh Singh Bhist( lohaghat), Arjun Sharma (Chakrata), K K Gautam (Vikasnagar), Dr R K Pathak(Dehradun Cantt.), Mohammad Ismail (Dharampurkari) and Naresh Vaid (Rajpur-Reserved).