Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati released the third list of 100 candidates for the upcoming Assembly elections at a meeting of zonal and other coordinators at the state party office in lucknow on Saturday.
The list contains candidates for the Bundelkhand and eastern UP which go to polls in the fourth and fifth phases on February 23 and 27 respecively. The BSP chief said that the fourth and last list would be released on Sunday.
During the last two days, the BSP has released two lists of 100 candidates each covering west and central UP where polling is scheduled on February 11, 15 and 19.
Interestingly, the Congress and the Bharatiya Janta Party have so far not announced any candidate while the lists of Samajwadi Party have shot into controversy due to the ntense power struggle within the Yadav clan.
The third list of the BSP consists of candidates for important districts like Allahabad, Jhansi, Faizabad and Ambedkarnagar districts.
Going by caste composition, the BSP list includes 22 Dalits, 23 Muslims and three women. It also contains the ames of some top BSP leaders including leader of Opposition in the Assembly Gaya Charan Dinker who has been fielded from Nairaini seat of Banda, state BSP chief Ram Achal Rajbhar from Akbarpur seat of Ambedkharnagar, Indrajeet Saroj from Manjanpur and Pooja Pal from Allahabad (West).
Earlier this week, Mayawati had announced that of the total Assembly seats in UP, a major chunk of 113 seats will go to the upper caste with Brahmins being fielded on 66 seats, Thakurs on 36 while Kayasth, Vaishya and others have been fielded in the rest 11 seats.
Other Backward Castes (OBCs) candidates arein the fray in 106 seats, 97 Muslim candidates are the fray while Dalits are contesting in 87 seats.
Saurday’s list include the candidature of Sureesh Pal (Unnao), Shashank Shekhar Singh (Bhagwantpur), Anil Singh (Purwa), Shyam Sunder Bharati (Bachrawa-SC), Manish Singh (Harchandpur), Shahbaz Khan (Rae Bareli), Braj lal Pasi (Salon-SC), Thakur Prasad Yadav (Sairaini), Vivek Singh (Unchahar), VP Singh (Kursi), Mohd Hafiz Bharati (Ramnagar), Surendra Singh Veerma (Babaranki), Meeta Gautam (Jaidpur- SC), Mohd Mubsir Khan (Daryabad), Kamla Prasad Rawat (Haidergarh), Ram Narain Nishad (Jahanabad), Sukhdeo Prasad Verma (Bindki), Sameer Trivedi (Fatehpur), Dev Kumar alias Bhole Pal (Ayahashah), Mohammad Asif Shekh (Hussainganj), Sunil Kumar Gautam (Khaga-SC), Ashok Kumar Singh ( Rampur Khas), Dayaram Pasi (Babaganj-SC), Pervez Akhtar Ansari (Kunda), Prem Anand Tripathi (Vishwanathganj), Ashok Tripathi (Pratapgarh), Shakti Singh (Patti), Shakil Ahmed (Raniganj), Sai Durba (Sirathu), Indrajeet Saroj (Manjhanpur-SC), Asif Jafri (Chayal), Manoj Pandey (Phaphamau), Geeta Pasi (Soraon-SC), Mohammad Masroor (Phulpur), Mujtaba Siddiqui (Pratappur), Hakim lal Bind (Handia), Surendra Kumar Mishra (Meja), Deepak Patel (Karchana), Pooja Pal (Allahabad- West), Masooq Khan (Allahabd- South), Amit Srivastava (Allahabad- North), Ashok Kumar Gautam (Bara) Rajbali Jaisal (Koraon- SC), Girish Awasthi (Madhogarh), Chhote Singh (Kalpi), Ajay Singh (Orai), Krishnapal Rajput (Babina), Sitaram Kushawaha (Jhansi), Pragilal Ahirwar (Mauranipur-SC), Dr. Arun Mishra (Garauth), Santosh Kumar Kushawaha (lalitpur), Feranlala Ahirwar (Mahrauni-SC), Sanjeev Kumar Dikshit (Hamirpur), Anil Ahirwar (Rath-SC), Aridaman Singh (Mahoba), Jitendra Kumar Mishra (Charkhari), Jagdish Prajapati (Tindwari), Kiran Yadav (Beberu), Gaya Charan Dinker (Nairaini-SC), Madhusudan Kushwaha (Banda), Jagdish Prasad Gautam (Chitrakoot), Chandra Bhan Singh Patel (Manikpur), Dr. K K Sachan (Tulsipur), Alauddin Khan (Gaisadhi), Pervez Ahmed (Utraula), Ram Sagar Akela (Balrampur- SC), Arsad Ali Khan (Mehana), Mohammad Jalil Khan (Gonda), Masood Alam Khan (Katra Bazar), Santosh Kumar Tiwari (Colonelganj), Indrabahadur Singh (Tarabganj), Ramesh Kumar Gautam (Mankapur-SC), Abdul Kalam Mallick (Gaura), Feroz Khan (Rudauli), Ram Pal Kori (Milkipur-SC), Jitendra Singh Babloo (Bikapur), Bazmi Siddiqui (Ayodhya), Dharamraj Nishad (Gosaiganj), lalji Verma (Kateheri), Manoj Kumar Verma (Tanda), Tribhuban Dutt (Alapur), Ritesh Pandey (Jalalpur), Ramachal Rajbhar (Akbarpur), Kiran Bharati (Balah), Abdul Wahid (Nanpara), Sultan Ahmed Khan (Matera), Krishna Kumar Ojha (Mahishi), Ajit Pratap Singh (Payagpur), Khalid Ahmed Khan (Kaiserganj), Aslam Raain (Bhinga), Subhash Satya (Shravasti), Jamil Siddiqui (Soharatgarh), Chandra Bhanu (Kapilvastu-SC), lalchand Nishad (Bansi), Arshad Khurshid (Etwa), Sayeeda Khatun (Domaraiganj), Anil Kumar Tripathi (Mehadawal), Mahshoor Alam Choudhury (Khalilabad) and Neelmani (Ghanghata-SC).