Samajwadi Party releases fifth list for prominent names of Lok Sabha Polls, Dimple and Dharmendra Yadav
Dharmendra Yadav will contest from Azamgarh while Mahendra Nagar will contest from Gautam Buddha Nagar (Noida).
Samajwadi Party Candidate List: The Samajwadi Party (SP) on Saturday released the fifth list of its candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh.
The prominent names in the list are Dharmendra Yadav who will contest from Azamgarh, Mahendra Nagar from Gautam Buddha Nagar (Noida), Manoj Kumar Raghvanshi from Misrikh, Bheem Nishad from Sultanpur, Jitendra Dohre from Etawah and Narayan Das Ahriwar from Jalaun.
The SP on Friday released the fourth list including Yashveer Singh from Bijnor, Manoj Kumar from Nagina, Bhanu Pratap Singh from Meerut, Bijendra Singh from Aligarh, Jasveer Valmiki from Hathras and Daroga Saroj from Lalganj, as the party has quit the Bhadohi Lok Sabha . seat for the Trinamool Congress (TMC).
The Samajwadi Party on February 20 released the third list of nine candidates with Shivpal Yadav as the candidate from Badaun, Surendra Singh Patel from Varanasi, Iqra Hasan from Kairana, Ajendra Singh Rajput from Hamirpur and Praveen Singh Aron from Bareilly.
Dimple Yadav, wife of former Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, has been summoned from Mainpuri and Ravidas Mehrotra from Lucknow. Akshay Yadav has been appointed from Firozabad, while Shivshakar Singh Patel has been appointed from Banda.
The Samajwadi Party has formed an alliance with its INDIA Alliance partner Congress in the politically crucial state that sends 80 MPs to the Lok Sabha.
In the current Lok Sabha, the SP, which had contested in alliance with the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in 2019, has three MPs while the BSP has 10 MPs.
According to party leader Ravidas Mehrotra, the Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh will contest the elections on 63 seats and the Congress on 17 seats.
The general elections to 543 Lok Sabha seats will be held in seven phases from April 19, Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar announced on Saturday. The count will take place on June 4.
Nearly 97 crore voters will be eligible to vote for 543 Lok Sabha constituencies across the country. With the announcement of dates, the moral code of conduct comes into effect immediately.
(With ANI inputs)