He Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) has released a new list of three candidates from Rae Bareli, Ambedkar Nagar and Bahraich of Uttar Pradesh.
While Thakur Prasad Yadav has been fielded from Rae Bareli, Kamar Hayat Ansari will contest from Ambedkar Nagar and Brijesh Kumar Sonker will fight from Bahraich, a scheduled caste reserved constituency.
The Mayawati-led BSP had already fielded Hembabu Dhangar from Hathras, Kamal Kant Upmanyu from Mathura, Pooja Amrohi from Agra and Ram Niwas Sharma from Fatehpur Sikri.
Satendra Jain Sauli has been fielded from Firozabad, Sarika Singh Baghel from Etawah, Kuldeep Badauria from Kanpur, Rajesh Kumar Dwivedi from Akbarpur and Surendra Chandra Gautam from Jalaun.
Unlike the 2019 elections, when it was in alliance with the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD), this time the party is contesting the elections alone.
In its first list, the BSP nominated Mazid Ali from Saharanpur, Shreepal Singh from Kairana, Dara Singh Prajapati from Muzaffarnagar, Vijendra Singh from Bijnor, Surendra Pal Singh from Nagina, Mohammad Irfan Saifi from Moradabad, Zeeshan Khan from Rampur, Shaukat Ali from Sambhal, Mujahid Hussain of Amroha, Devratt Tyagi of Meerut, Praveen Bansal of Baghpat, Rajendra Singh Solanki of Gautam Buddha Nagar, Girish Chandra Jatav of Bulandshahr, Abid Ali of Aonla, Aneesh Ahmed Khan alia Phool Babu of Pilibhit and Dodram Verma of Shahjahanpur.
The BSP contested nine of these seats in 2019, winning four: Saharanpur, Bijnor, Nagina and Amroha. The SP fielded candidates in the other five last time, winning three, while the RLD lost the two seats it contested.
Lok Sabha polls It will be carried out in seven phases starting April 19.
Uttar Pradesh, which sends the maximum number of MPs, 80, to Parliament, is voting in all seven phases.
Voting for phase one took place on April 13 and phase two is scheduled for Friday. The state will then vote again in phases three and four on May 7 and 13. Uttar Pradesh electorate will also vote in phases five, six and seven on May 20, May 23 and June 1 respectively.
Votes will be counted on June 4.
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