UP Polls 2022: Samajwadi Party releases list of candidates. Details

Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav  (ANI)Premium
Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav  (ANI)
 1 min read . Updated: 24 Jan 2022, 07:58 PM IST Livemint

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The Samajwadi Party (SP) of Akhilesh Yadav on Monday released the list of candidates for the upcoming assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh. 

Former chief minister Akhilesh Yadav will contest from Karhal assembly seat in Mainpuri. Nahid Hasan has been fielded from Kairana while Pankaj Kumar Malik will be contesting from Muzzafarnagar.

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Star campaigners 

SP patron Mulayam Singh Yadav, Akhilesh Yadav and new entrant to the party Swami Prasad Maurya are among its 30 star campaigners for the first phase of the assembly election. 

The other prominent star campaigners are national vice-president Kiranmay Nanda, principal general secretary Ramgopal Yadav, Rajya Sabha MP Jaya Bachchan, the party's Uttar Pradesh unit chief Naresh Uttam Patel, leader of opposition in the Assembly Ramgobind Chaudhary.

The party's national executive member Javed Ali Khan and Samajwadi Yuvjan Sabha president Mohammad Fahad have also been named as star campaigners. Dara Singh Chauhan and Dharam Singh Saini, who quit as ministers and from the BJP to join the SP, are not in the list of 30 star campaigners.

 

 

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