The new list of Samajwadi party candidates for 12 seats in the upcoming Assembly elections was released on Thursday by CM Akhilesh Yadav. Surprisingly, Akhilesh has not given tickets to four sitting MLAs, three of whom were announced as candidates in the list Mulayam Singh Yadav had declared last month.
The MLAs who were denied tickets were Mahendra Kumar Singh (Sevata), Sayeed Ahmed (Phulpur), Subbaram (Jakhanian) who were on Mulayam’s list of candidates. And Ram Swaroop Singh (Akbarpur-Raniya).
Akhilesh has given a ticket to Shiv Kumar Gupta in Sevata, Neeraj Gaur in Akbarpur-Raniya, Mansoor Alam in Phulpur and Garib Das in Jakhanian. He has fielded the party’s sitting MLAs on the seats of Bakshi Ka Talab in Lucknow, Pratappur in Allahabad, Alapur in Ambedkar Nagar and Utraula in Balrampur.
This was Akhilesh’s fifth list of candidates. As per conditions of its alliance with the Congress, the SP will field candidates on 298 Assembly seats.
