Shivpal Yadav who has already started rolling out the names of Candidates for the mega battle of ballots has released another list. In the new list party named 14 Candidates from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Haryana and Rajasthan.
Yadav, estranged leader of Samajwadi Party and once a minister in Akhilesh Yadav led government in the state has floated his own party last year, Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohia).
The party named two Candidates from Uttar Pradesh, 5 from Haryana, 6 from Bihar and alone from Rajasthan.
The party in a run-up to the polls has already declared 7 lists of Candidates from Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Bihar, Odisha, Haryana, and the National Capital New Delhi.
READ: Lok Sabha Polls: Shivpal Yadav’s Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party names Candidates from UP, MP, Odisha and other States
Shivpal Singh Yadav's Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohia) releases a list of 14 candidates for Lok Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Bihar and Haryana. pic.twitter.com/YUo5CVT2yf
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Here is the latest list of Candidates announced by the party:
Uttar Pradesh
- Chhote Lal Yadav from Banda (In place of Sunita Devi)
- Vinay Kumar Singh from Deoria
Rajasthan
- Anop Kumar Meghwal from Rajasthan
Bihar
- Raviraj From Buxar
- Anil Kumar Singh from Aara
- Nirmala Devi from Sasaram
- Ehteshamul Hasan Rehmani from Muzaffarpur
- Mohd Khaleeq Ansari from Madhubani
- Arvind Pratap Singh from Jehanabad
Harayana
- Manju Devi from Rohtak
- Rajat Kalsan from Hisar
- Shailesh Kumar from Bhiwani Mahendragarh (In place of Seema Yadav)
- Naresh Kumar from Karnal
- Heera Singh from Sirsa
With this, the party has named a total of 77 candidates in states on UP, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Bihar, Tamil Nadu, Haryana and Rajasthan among others.
The new political party in the run-up to the mega polls will take on Bharatiya Janata Party, SP-BSP-RLD Combine and Congress in Uttar Pradesh. Congress in Uttar Pradesh has forged an alliance with Janta Dal faction, Mahan Dal, Jan Adhikar Party. The Rahul Gandhi-led party has so far declared candidates on over 370 seats with 66 in Uttar Pradesh.
While Bharatiya Janta Party in its UP hunt has inked poll tie-up with Nishad Party, Apna Dal (Sonelal).
The SP-BSP-RLD combine has also named its candidates on most of the seats of the state.
General Elections have already begun from April 11 and would spread on Seven Phases starting from April 11 to May 19.
Uttar Pradesh which has a total of 80 seats will go to polls in all seven phases starting from April 11. The Lok Sabha Seats of – Gautam Budh Nagar, Ghaziabad, Meerut, Kairana, Saharanpur, Muzaffarnagar, Baghpat and Bijnor have already voted on April 11.
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