The Samajwadi Party (SP) on Thursday declared its candidates for the remaining two seats for the upcoming bypolls in Uttar Pradesh. The party fielded Singh Raj Jatav from the Ghaziabad seat, while Dr Charu Kain was given the ticket by the Khair Assembly constituency.
Earlier on October 9, the SP had announced six of the 10 Uttar Pradesh assembly seats where bypolls are due later this year. The SP has fielded Tej Pratap Yadav from Karhal, while it has given a ticket to Naseem Solanki from the Sisamu seat, Mustafa Siddiqui from Phulpur (Prayagraj), and Ajit Prasad from Milkipur (Ayodhya), according to the party’s list. Shobhawai Verma and Jyodi Bind have been given party tickets from Katehari and Majhwan seats, respectively, it stated.
Among the SP candidates, Naseem Solanki is wife of jailed party leader Irfan Solanki, while Shobhawati Verma is wife of party MP Lalji Verma and Ajit Prasad is son of Faizabad (Ayodhya) MP Awadhesh Prasad.
Bypolls on 10 seats
By-elections are set to be held in 10 assembly seats of the state — Katehari (Ambedkar Nagar), Karhal (Mainpuri), Milkipur (Ayodhya), Meerapur (Muzaffarnagar), Ghaziabad, Majhawan (Mirzapur), Sisamau (Kanpur city), Khair (Aligarh), Phulpur (Prayagraj) and Kundarki (Moradabad). Nine of these seats fell vacant after its MLAs were elected as MPs in the Lok Sabha polls, while in Sisamau, the bypoll is being held due to the disqualification of SP MLA Irfan Solanki, who was convicted in a criminal case.
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