The Samajwadi Party on Monday released the third list of 37 candidates thus taking the number of people in the fray to 305 against the 298 seats it saved for itself in the tie-up with the Congress.
Mulayam Singh Yadav’s younger daughter-in-law Aparna Yadav was on Monday formally chosen to contest from the lucknow Cantonment seat against BJP’s Rita Bahuguna, a former MlA from the constituency, who recently joined the party after quitting the Congress. Aparna’s name for the seat was doing the rounds for the last couple of months.
Quashing talks of trouble with the Congress over extra seats, State SP chief Naresh Uttam who announced the new list of candidates in lucknow on Monday, said, “There is no confusion over the alliance. If at all there is some misunderstanding, it will be cleared as the Samajwadi Party will withdraw some of its candidates announced for the first two phases of the Assembly polls. Those seats would go to the Congress as per the alliance announced on Sunday.”
In the latest SP list, the party has denied tickets to sitting MlA and Minister Vijay Mishra from Ghazipur and former Minister Shadab Fatima. Both were followers
of former State SP chief
Shivpal Yadav.
In the new list, the SP has announced candidates for four seats of lucknow and three of Kannauj. Sitting MlA and Minister of State Ravidas Mehrotra and Abhishek Mishra will contest from lucknow (Central) and lucknow (North) respectively.
The party has also changed candidates in three seats. Abdul Shahnawaj will be the candidate in the Saharanpur (Rural) seat replacing Gufran Ahmed and Meera Bano will be the new candidate from Srinagar seat of lakhimpur Kheri in place of Rama Sharan and Surbi will be in the fray replacing Amit Kumar in Kayamganj seat of Farrukabad.
Senior SP leader and Minister Balram Yadav’s son Sangram Singh Yadav has been fielded from Ataraulia Assembly seat in Azamgarh. There was some confusion over the name of Akhilesh Yadav from Mubarakpur seat of Azamgarh. This was put to rest by Uttam who said that the CM will not contest elections and the candidate from Mubarakpur was a different person.
The latest list of candidates include Arvind Singh Yadav who will fight from Chabramau, Vijay Bahadur Pal from Tirva, Anil Dohre from Kannauj, Mohammad Rehan from lucknow West, Abhishek Mishra from lucknow North, Ravidas Mehrotra from lucknow Central, Aparna Yadav from lucknow Cantonment, Chandra Prakash lodhi from Fatehpur, laxmikant alias Pappu Nishad from Medhawal, Algu Chauhan from Ghanghata, Amrendra Nishad from Piparaich, Vijay Bahadur Yadav from Gorakhpur Rural, Sangram Singh Yadav from Ataraulia and Nafis Ahmed from Gopalpur.
Other candidates in the fray are Abhay Narain Singh from Sagri, Akhilesh Yadav from Mubarakpur, Durga Prasad Yadav from Azamgarh, Alam Badi from Nizamabad, Shyam Bahadur Singh from Phulpur Pawai, Adil Sheikh from Didarganj, Bechai Saroj from lalganj, Kalpnath Saroj from Mehnagar, Sanatan Pandey from Rasra, Jagdish Sonkar from Machillishara, Shradha Yadav from Mardihau and Sachindra Nath Tripathi from Zafarabad.
The list also includes Gulab Chandra Saroj from Kerakat, Rakesh Kushawaha from Ghazipur, Virendra Yadav from Jangipur, Mahendra Chauhan from Zahurabad, Babu lal Yadav from Mugalsarai, Prabhu Narain Singh from Sakaldiha, Manoj Kumar Singh from Sayeedraja, Poonam Sonker from Chakia, lalji Sonkar from Ajagra, Mahendra Singh Patel form Rohania and Surendra Singh Patel from Sevapuri.