Party chiefs in some regions have previously announced district-level candidates. (document)

Lucknow:

The Bahujan Samaj Party on Sunday announced candidates in two different lists for 25 of the 80 seats in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh.

Party chiefs in some regions have previously announced district-level candidates.

According to the first list released, the Mayawati-led party fielded Majeed Ali from Saharanpur, Shripal Singh from Kairana, Dara from Muzaffarnagar Singh Prajapati, Vijaydra Singh from Bijnor, Surendra Pal Singh from Nagina (SC seat) and Mohammad from Moradabad · Irrfan Saifi was presented by the Samajwadi Party (BSP) on Sunday.

The party is said to have issued tickets to Zishan Khan of Rampur, Shaulat Ali of Sambhal, Mozahid Hussain of Amroha, Devvrat Tyagi of Meerut and Praveen Bansal of Baghpat.

Rajendra Singh Solanki from Gautam Buddha Nagar will be the party candidate, while Girish Chandra Jatav from Bulandshahr (SC seat) will contest, Abid Ali from Aonla, Anis Ahmad Khan alias Phool Babu from Pilibhit and Shahjahanpur Dodaram Verma of SC), it added.

Later in the day, the party announced the names of nine more candidates in the second list: Hembabu Dhangar from Hathras (SC seat), Kamal Kant Upmanyu from Mathura, Agra (SC seat) Pooja Amrohi from Fatehpur Sikri, Ram Nivas Sharma from Fatehpur Sikri, Satyendra from Fatehpur Sikri, Jain Sauli from Firozabad, Sarika Singh Baghel from Etawah (SC seat), Kuldeep Bhadauria from Kanpur, Rajesh Kumar Dwivedi from Akbarpur and Suresh Chandra Gautam from Jalaun (SC seat).

Uttar Pradesh, which has sent 80 MPs to the lower house of parliament, will vote in all phases of the general election: April 19, April 26, May 7, May 13, May 20, May 25 and 6 January 1st. Counting will take place on June 4.

In 2019, the BJP and its ally Apna Dal (Sonelal) won 64 seats, 62 and 2 respectively. The SP-BSP alliance has 15 seats and the Congress party has one seat.

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