SP names eight bypoll candidates

The Samajwadi Party announced on Tuesday candidates for eight Assembly seats where bypolls are scheduled this year.

The Samajwadi Party (SP) announced on Tuesday candidates for eight Assembly seats where bypolls are scheduled this year.

Of the 12 Assembly and one Lok Sabha seat scheduled to go to bypolls,the SP is yet to announce candidates for the crucial Ferozabad Lok Sabha seat and the Assembly seats of Lucknow (West),Bharthna,Jhansi and Etawah. The BSP has already announced candidates for all seats.

Ferozabad will go to the polls following the resignation of state SP president Akhilesh Yadav from the constituency,who was also elected from the Kannauj Lok Sabha seat.

The names of the candidates announced on Tuesday are Surjan Lal (Powayan-Shahjahanpur),Mani Bhadra Singh (Isauli-Sultanpur),Algu Chouhan (Haisarbazar-Santkabirnagar) Shakir Ali (Padrauna-Kushinagar),Babu Lal Yadav (Mugalsarai-Chandauli),Nand Lal Patel (Kolasla-Varanasi),Om Prakash Dwivedi (Rari-Jaunpur) and Chandra Bhushan Bundela (Lalitpur). Yadav said candidates for the rest of the seats will also be announced very soon.

The SP had lost byelections in all four Assembly seats held on August 18.

Oppn slams Maya
Leader of Opposition in the Assembly,Shivpal Singh Yadav,alleged that after ignoring the drought situation,the Mayawati government has also failed to provide relief to the flood-affected people of the state.

The chief minister has not even bothered to conduct an aerial survey of the flood-affected districts. She is not concerned about the people but only interested in constructing her own statues and collecting funds for the party, Yadav said.

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Meanwhile,BSP leader Rammurti Verma,former MP from Shahjahanpur,rejoined the SP on Tuesday. He was elected to Lok Sabha twice on SP ticket.

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