Apna Dal (Sonelal) on Tuesday announced the names of its candidates for the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. The party fielded Union Minister of State for Commerce and Industry Anupriya Patel from the Mirzapur constituency. Patel seeks a hat-trick of victory from the constituency. She is the sitting MP from Mirzapur. Patel's party named Rinki Kol as its candidate from Robertsganj Lok Sabha seat.
Kol is the sitting MLA from Chhanbey Assembly constituency in Mirzapur district. She had won the assembly seat in a bypoll.
She is the wife of Rahul Prakash Pol, a two-time Apna Dal (Sonelal) MLA from Chhanbey who died in February 2023 due to cancer, and is the daughter-in-law of Pakauri Lal Kol – who won the seat in the previous Lok Sabha poll.
Voting in Mirzapur and Robertsganj Lok Sabha seats will take place on June 1 in the seventh and final phase of the Lok Sabha elections in the state.
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