Lucknow: The Samajwadi Celebration on Tuesday declared its first record of candidates, together with three members of the Yadav household and eight OBCs, for 16 Lok Sabha seats.
Whereas former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav’s spouse and Mainpuri MP Dimple Yadav will contest from the constituency once more, his cousins Dharmendra and Akshay Yadav have been fielded from Badaun and Firozabad, respectively.
Each Dharmendra and Akshay have represented the constituencies up to now. Whereas Dharmendra has been a two-time MP from Badaun (2009-2019), Akshay served because the Firozabad parliamentarian from 2014 to 2019.
That the SP has gone forward with releasing its first record even because the Congress has maintained that seat-sharing talks with the principal opposition occasion in Uttar Pradesh are on, is critical.
On Sunday, Akhilesh had tweeted that the occasion is starting its alliance with the Congress as a part of which, the latter is getting 11 seats. Nonetheless, UP Congress chief Ajay Rai had remarked that seat-sharing talks are nonetheless on between the nationwide management of the 2 events.
Other than the OBC candidates, the record options one from SC, three from higher caste and a Muslim, according to the occasion chief’s PDA pitch for the ‘Picchde’ (backwards), Dalit (scheduled castes) and ‘Alpasankhayak’ (minorities).
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Katehri MLA and senior chief Lalji Verma, who served as a minister within the Mayawati authorities earlier than switching to the SP in 2021, was given a ticket from Ambedkarnagar.
Whereas Devesh Shakya has obtained the ticket from Etah, Utkarsh Verma — who unsuccessfully contested from Lakhimpur within the 2022 state polls — was chosen for Kheri.
SP state common secretary Naval Kishore Shakya, a former BSP chief who joined the occasion in 2018, will contest from Farrukhabad.
Two-time MP Rajaram Pal, who was with the BSP and the Congress earlier than becoming a member of the SP in 2021, will strive his luck from Akbarpur. An OBC chief, Pal served as a BSP MP from Bilhaur in 2004 and the Akbarpur MP for the Congress in 2009.
Shivshankar Singh Patel, a former BJP chief who was expelled by the occasion for six years in 2021, is candidate for Banda. Patel has served because the BJP’s MLA from Baberu meeting constituency.
Senior chief Ram Prasad Chaudhary, who served as a minister within the Mayawati and Kalyan Singh governments and likewise served as a five-time MLA from Kaptanganj, will once more contest from Basti, a seat the place he misplaced to BJP’s Harish Dwivedi in 2019.
The SP chief’s alternative of candidate for Gorakhpur — the yard of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath — is Kajal Nishad. She was the SP’s mayor candidate from Gorakhpur in 2023. A serious controversy had adopted after she alleged electoral fraud stating that whereas 3,63,000 votes have been polled, the entire votes counted have been 4,87,198.
Milkipur MLA Awadhesh Prasad, who’s related to SP’s late patron Mulayam Singh Yadav since 1977, is contesting from Faizabad. He belongs to the SC class.
Lucknow central MLA Ravidas Mehrotra will struggle from Lucknow, whereas former Unnao MP Annu Tandon now has an opportunity to symbolize the parliamentary constituency once more. She had left the Congress to affix the SP in 2020.
Dhaurahra will once more host former MLC Anand Bhadauria, who had misplaced to BJP’s Rekha Verma in 2014.
Shafiqur Rahman Barq, 93, will contest from Sambhal. Recognized to make statements towards the occasion line, Barq confronted sedition expenses in 2021 for defending the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan and equating it with India’s freedom wrestle.
(Edited by Tony Rai)
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