New Delhi | The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) today released its first list of candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh.
In a released statement, the Mayawati led BSP announced its candidates for 11 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh. The list also included former JD(S) general secretary Danish Ali who recently joined BSP. Ali will be contesting from the Amroha constituency. The list includes Haji Fazalurahman from Saharanpur, Maluk Nagar form Bijnour, Girish Nagar from Nagina (SC), Haji Yakub from Meruut, Satbir Nagar from Sant Kabir Nagar, Yogesh Verma from Bulandshahr, Ajit Balian from Aligarh, Manoj Kumar Saini from Agra (SC), Rajvir Singh from Fatehpur Sikri and Ruchi Veera from Aonla constituency.
BSP chief Mayawati and Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav Saturday earlier had announced their alliance in Uttar Pradesh for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, sharing 38 seats each out of the state’s 80 parliamentary constituencies. Later Ajit Singh’s RLD joined the alliance and the seat-sharing formula changed as Samajwadi Party will contest on 37 seats, Bahujan Samaj Party on 38 and RLD to contest of 3 seats of Baghpat, Mathura and Muzaffarnagar.
The parties had kept the Congress out of the alliance but said they will not field candidates in Amethi and Rae Bareli, represented by Congress president Rahul Gandhi and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi.
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