UP Mayor election: SP declares 8 candidates for 6 districts
The biggest opposition party in UP, SP is trying to revive its electoral fortune ahead of the crucial General Election 2024. Mayor elections are seen as semifinal before 2024.
Samajwadi Party (SP) declared 8 names of its mayoral candidates for six districts including the state capital Lucknow on Wednesday. SP chief Akhilesh Yadav held a meeting with party leaders and the applicants for the post of mayor at his office in Lucknow for upcoming municipal elections.
The urban local body polls will take place on May 4 and May 11. The counting of votes will take place on May 13.
Name Seat
- Vandana Mishra from Lucknow
- Kajal Nishad grom Gorakhpur
- Ajay Srivastava Prayagraj
- Raghuveer Chaudhury from Jhansi
- Seema Pradhan from Meerut
- Archana Verma from Shahjahanpur
- Mashrur Fatima from Firozabad
- Alok Pandey from Ayodhya
Congress has also declared its candidate from Varanasi and Kanpur. According to the list released by party state president Brijlal Khabri, Anil Kumar Srivastava has been given a ticket from Varanasi and Aashani Awasthi from Kanpur.
(Report by Risheesh Tripathi/PTI)