Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav will contest the upcoming Parliamentary polls from Uttar Pradesh's Azamgarh, a seat held by his father and party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav in the outgoing Lok Sabha. 

Former Uttar Pradesh minister Azam Khan has been nominated from Rampur, the party announced on Twitter. 

Taking these two, the SP has announced a list of 19 candidates so far.

The Samajwadi Party has entered a pre-poll alliance with the Mayawati-led BSP and will contest 37 of 80 Lok Sabha seats in UP. While the BSP will contest on 38 seats, the RLD, which is also a part of the alliance, will fight from three seats. The SP-BSP-RLD alliance had left two seats for the Congress in Amethi and Rae Bareli.

The general election is going to start on April 11 and will continue till May 19. Polling on the 80 seats in the state will be held in seven phases. 

The Samajwadi Party and the BSP will hold a series of joint rallies for the Lok Sabha polls, with the first being on April 7 in Uttar Pradesh's Deoband town.

There will be several joint rallies in the state and besides the SP and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) will be also part of these public meeting, Samajwadi Party chief spokesman Rajendra Chowdhury said on Thursday.

The first of these joint rallies will be held in Saharanpur district's Deoband town on April 7 and will be addressed by SP president Akhilesh Yadav, BSP chief Mayawati and RLD president Ajit Singh, he said.

(With PTI inputs)