The ruling Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh announced candidates for 9 assembly seats. The party has also changed the candidates for 14 constituency seats.
The Smajwadi Party state president Shivpal Yadav said that while Mukesh Shrivastava has been given ticket form Prayagpur seat of Bahraich, Aman Mani Tripathi, son of Amar Mani Tripathi, who is in jail in connection with poetess Madhumita murder case, has been given ticket from Nautanwa seat in Mahrajganj district, SP state president Shivpal Singh said.
He further said that Subhash Rai from Jalalpur (Amebedkar Nagar), Mohd Irshad from Nakud (Saharanpur), Sanjay Yadav from Obra (Sonebhadra), Usha Verma from Sandi (Hardoi) are the others who were given SP tickets.
Yadav added that the party has changed candidates for 14 constituencies, prominent among them are, Pakshalika Singh, who has replaced Vinod Kumar Sikarwar from Khairagarh seat, and Chandra Bhushan Singh Bundela alias Guddu Raja who replaced Jyoti Lodhi from lalitpur.
By Prajakt K.
