On Monday, the Samajwadi Party released its second list of 11 candidates for the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections. Earlier, SP released its first list of candidates for 16 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh. Out of 80 Lok Sabha seats in the state, the SP has declared candidates for 27 seats.
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list of 27 candidates
- Hirendra Malik (Muzaffarnagar)
- Neeraj Maurya (Aonla)
- Rajesh Kashyap (Shahjahanpur)
- Usha Verma (Hardoi)
- Rampal Rajvanshi (Mishrikh)
- RK Chaudhari (Mohanlal Ganj)
- Dr. SP Singh Patel (Pratapgarh)
- Ramesh Gautam (Bahraich)
- Shreya Verma (Gonda)
- Afjal Ansari (Gazipur)
- Veerendra Singh (Chandauli)
- Shafiqur Rahman Barq (Sambhal)
- 13.Akshay Yadav (Firozabad)
- Dimple Yadav (Mainpuri)
- Devesh Shakya (Etah)
- Dharmendra Yadav (Budaun)
- Utkarsh Verma (Khiri)
- Anand Bhadauria (Dhaurahra)
- Anu Tandon (Unnao)
- Ravidas Mehrotra (Lucknow)
- Naval Kishor Shakya (Farrukhabad)
- Rajaram Pal (Akbarpur)
- Shiv Shankar Singh Patel (Banda)
- Avdhesh Prasad (Faizabad)
- Lalji Verma (Ambedkar Nagar)
- Ramprasad Chaudhari (Basti)
- Kajal Nishad (Gorakhpur)
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav has fielded his wife Dimple Yadav from Mainpuri (the bastion of Samajwadi supremo and former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, the late Mulayam Singh Yadav). In the 2022 byelection, she was elected from Mainpuri to the lower house of the Parliament by defeating the BJP’s Raghu Raj Singh Shakya with more than 2,88,000 votes. She also served as a member of parliament from Kannauj twice.
Akshay Yadav has been fielded from the seat of Firozabad. He is the son of the Samajwadi Party’s National General Secretary and Rajya Sabha MP Ram Gopal Yadav.
Shafiqur Rahman Barq, an old veteran Samajwadi party leader, has been declared a candidate from Sambhal. At present, he is 93 and one of the oldest members of parliament. In 2019, he was elected from the Sambhal Lok Sabha constituency.
Afzal Ansari is the sitting MP of the BSP from Ghazipur constituency; he is the brother of Mukhtar Ansari (a Bahubali politician from Purvanchal).
Samajwadi party-Congress Alliance
SP chief Akhilesh Yadav has made it clear that once the seat-sharing formula is decided, only he will be participating in the Rahul Gandhi Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra, which is in Uttar Pradesh. According to the sources, Akhilesh Yadav has offered 17 Lok Sabha seats to the Congress. Earlier, SP was willing to give only 11 seats, but after the breakaway of Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) from the Alliance Samajwadi Party, it was ready to give Congress 17 seats.
The state unit of Congress has vehemently opposed the offer of the Samajwadi Party and demanded at least two dozen seats, which Congress won in the 2009 general elections.
Avinash Pandey, Congress in-charge of Uttar Pradesh, reached out to the Bahujan Samajwadi Party for an alliance in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. He also made a statement that the doors are always open for the BSP to be a part of the Indian National Development Inclusive Alliance (INDIA). BSP supremo Mayawati, on social media site X, has strongly condemned all such offers and has clearly stated that her party will be going all alone in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections and that she will not forge an alliance with any party.
What’s going on on the BJP side?
Till now, the BJP has not released any candidate lists for the Lok Sabha election in Uttar Pradesh since the last two general elections. The BJP has performed splendidly by winning 71 out of 80 and 62 out of 80 in the 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha elections, respectively. The Bhartiya Janata Party is aiming to increase its graph in Uttar Pradesh from the last election and is targeting to win all 80 Lok Sabha seats to cross the mark of 400, which Prime Minister Modi said during the two days of the BJP’s national convention in Delhi: ‘abaki bar 400 paar’
Sources within the party said that many Union Ministers who were members of the Rajya Sabha were asked to select their Lok Sabha seats to contest. We will see many new faces from Uttar Pradesh as sources claim that the BJP will cut 30 to 40% of sitting MP’s tickets from Uttar Pradesh to manage anti-incumbency.
It is pretty much clear that Prime Minister Modi will contest from his Varanasi Lok Sabha seat, and Rajnath Singh will be contesting from Lucknow once again. Apart from this, no one in the current BJP can say that his or her ticket is confirmed for Lok Sabha from Uttar Pradesh.
