With the release of the fourth list of 101 party candidates by Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati here on Sunday, the party has become the first to announce list of 401 candidates for the upcoming state assembly elections.
The lists of all the 401 candidates have been released, except for two reserved seats— Obra and Dudhi seats in Sonebhadra districts, from where BSP is likely to announce the names very soon.
Mayawati released the fourth list following a meeting with the party’s senior leaders including the zonal coordinators and other coordinators here at the state party headquarters for the past two days. The candidates in the fourth list are from the eastern parts of the State which goes to the polls in the sixth and seventh phases of the Elections on March 4 and 8.
During the past three days, the BSP had released the three lists of 100 candidates each covering the entire western UP and Central UP. There are 403 Assembly seats in the state and BSP will be contesting the polls alone.
The third list came out with announcement of all the candidates for important districts like Gorakhpur, Varanasi, Ballia, Mirzapur and Sonebhadra districts. The caste composition of the third list of the BSP includes 20 Dalits, nine Muslims, and 13 Brahmins.
Former Assembly Speaker Sukhdeo Rajbhar has been given ticket from Didarganj in Azamgarh district, while former legislative Council Chairman Ganesh Shanker Pandey from Paniyara seat in Maharajganj district. Vinay Shanker Tiwari, son of Hari Shanker Tiwari, would be the party candidate from Chillupar seat in Gorakhpur district while former UP minister Ranghnath Mishra would be the candidate from Bhadoi seat.
Earlier this week, Mayawati had announced that of the total Assembly seats in UP, the major chunk of 113 seats will go to the upper caste of which Brahmins, 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. Dalits will have 87 seats.
The candidates are as follows:
Mohammad Saud Ahmed ( Tiloi), Jagdutt kori(Jagdishpur-SC), Vijay Kishore Tiwari( Gauriganj), Ramji Maurya ( Amethi), Shailendra Tripathi( Isauli), Muzeeb Ahmed ( Sultanpur), Raj Prasad Upadhaya ( Sadar), Vinod Singh ( lambhua), Bhagelu Ram ( Kadipur-SC), Vipin Kumar Shukla (Harriya), Ram Prasad Choudhury ( Kaptanganj), Rajendra Prasad Choudhury( Rudauli), Jitendra Kumar alias Nandu Choudhury( Basti sadar) Dudhram ( Mahdeva-SC), Bechan Nishad(Farenda),
Ezaj Ahmed Khan ( Nautanwa), Raghvendra Pratap alias Ankit Singh( Siswa), Nimesh Mangal ( Maharajganj-SC), Ganesh Shanker Pandey ( Paniyara), Anand Nishad( Campairganj), Aftab Alam ( Pipriach), Janardan Choudhury(Gorakhpur city), Rajesh Pandey( Gorakhpur rural), Dev narain Singh alias G M Singh( Sahajanwa), Raj Kumar( Khajni-SC), Jai Prakash Nishad ( Chauri-Chaura), Dharmendra Kumar ( Bansgaon-SC), Vinay Shanker Tiwari( Chillupar), Vijay Pratap Kushawaha ( Khadda), Javed Iqbal ( Padrauna), Vijay Kunwar Rai ( Tumkahiraj), Jagdish Singh(Fazilnagar), Rajesh Pratap Rao( Kushinagar), Virendra Singh Saithwar( Hata), Shambhu Choudhury( Ramloka-SC), Chandrika Nishad( Rudrapur), Abhaynath Tripathi( Deoria), Neeraj Verma ( Pathardeva),Girijesh Sahi ( Rampur Karkhana), Sabhakunwar Kushawaha(Bhatparrani), Ranvijay Kumar( Salempur-SC),
Murli Manohar Jaiswal(Barhaj),Akhand Pratap Singh( Atauralia), Kamla Prasad Yadav( Gopalpur), Vandana Singh(Sagri), Shah Alam alias Guddu Jamali( Mubarakpur), Bhupendra Singh( Azamgarh sadar), Chandradev Ram Yadav( Nizamabad), Abul Kaish( Phulpur Pawai), Sukhdeo Rajbhar ( Didarganj) Azad Aridaman(lalganj-SC), Vidya Choudhury(Mehnagar-SC), Umesh Pandey ( Madhuvan), Wasim Iqbal(Ghosi), Rajendra Kumar( Mohammadbad Gohna-SC), Manoj Kumar Rai( Mau), Ghuraram( Belthara road-SC), Umashanker Singh( Rasra), Raj Narain Yadav( Sikenderpur), Abhiram Singh( Fefna), Ramji Gupta( Ballia sadar), Shivshanker Chauhan( Bansdih),
Jawahar Prasad Verma( Beria), laljir Yadav Badlapur), O P Singh ( Shahganj),, Dinesh Tandon( Jaunpur), Vivek Kumar Yadav( Malhani), Sushma Patel( Mungrabadshahpur), Sushila Saroj( Machilishahr-SC), Bholanath Shukla (Mandhiau),Sanjeev Kumar Upadhaya( Jafrabad ), Urmila Raj ( Kerakat-SC), Sanjeev Kumar( Jakhania-SC),Rajiv Kiran( Sairpur-SC), Santosh Kumar Singh Yadav( Ghazipur), Manish Pandey( Jangipur), Kalicharan Rajbhar( Jahurabad), Vinod Kumar Rai( Mohammadabad), Atul Rai( Jamania), Tilakdhari Bind( Mugalsarai), Upendra Singh Guddu (Sakaldiha), Shyamnarain Singh alias Vinit Singh( Saiyadraja), Jitendra Kumar ( Chakia-SC), Babulal Patel( Pindra), Tribhuvan Ram( Ajgara-SC),Pramod Kumar Singh ( Rohania), Sujit Kumar Maurya( Varanasi-North), Rakesh Tripathi( Varanasi- South), Mohammad Rizwan Ahmed( Varanasi- Cantt.), Mahendra Nath pandey ( Sevapuri), Rangnath Mishra ( Bhadoi), Rajesh Kumar Yadav( Gyanpur), Baijnath Gautam(Aurai-SC), Dhaneshwar Gautam( Chanbey), Mohammad Parvej Khan( Mirzapur), Ramesh Chandra Bind( Majhawa), Anmol Singh Ptel( Chunar), Awadhesh Singh patel( Marihan), Ms Veena Singh( Ghorawal) and Sunil Singh Yadav( Robertsganj).