SP announces third list for UP Lok Sabha polls, nominates Shivpal Yadav for Budaun
Samajwadi Party has now announced 31 candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh.
The Samajwadi Party announced its third list of five candidates for the Lok Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday (February 20), with senior leader Shivpal Yadav nominated for the Budaun parliamentary constituency.
Shivpal Yadav, the uncle of party chief Akhilesh Yadav, is an MLA from the Jaswantnagar assembly constituency in Etawah district.
The other candidates on the list are Surendra Singh Patel from Varanasi, Iqra Hasan from Kairana), Praveen Singh Aron from Bareilly and Ajendra Singh Rajput from Hamirpur.
With this list, the Samajwadi Party has so far declared the names of 31 candidates for the Lok Sabha polls in Uttar Pradesh.
In its first list, the SP had fielded Dharmendra Yadav, the son of party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav's younger brother Abhay Ram Yadav, from Budaun.
The Akhilesh Yadav-led party has offered 17 Lok Sabha seats to the Congress, an alliance partner in the INDIA bloc. Altogether, the state has 80 LS constituencies.
(With agency inputs)