2024 Lok Sabha polls: Samajwadi Party releases first list of 16 candidates, Dimple Yadav to contest from Mainpuri
Dimple Yadav, the wife of SP chief Akhilesh Yadav, will contest from Mainpuri.
- Jan 30, 2024,
- Updated Jan 30, 2024 5:32 PM IST
The Samajwadi Party (SP) on Tuesday released its first list of 16 candidates for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Dimple Yadav, the wife of SP chief Akhilesh Yadav, will contest from Mainpuri. The SP, which is part of the INDIA bloc, is currently engaged in seat-sharing talks with Congress. Former chief minister Akhilesh Yadav has offered 11 seats to Congress, which currently holds one seat in Uttar Pradesh.
SP's first list of candidates for the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections
Sambhal: Shafiqur Rahman Barq Firozabad: Akshay Yadav Mainpur: Dimple Yadav Eta: Devesh Shakya Budaun: Dharmendra Yadav Khiri: Utkarsh Verma Dhaurahra: Anand Bhadauria Unnao: Anu Tandon Lucknow: Ravidas Mehrotra Farukhabad: Naval Kishore Shakya Akbarpur: Rajaram Pal Banda: Shivshankar Singh Patel Faizabad: Avdesh Prasad Ambedkar Nagar: Lalji verma Basti: Ram Prasad Choudhary Gorakhpur: Kajal Nishad
In Uttar Pradesh, which has 80 Lok Sabha seats, the contest is likely to be between the BJP and SP-Congress. The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) of Mayawati has not allied with any party and will contest all seats.
In the last 2019 elections, the BJP had won 62 seats with nearly 50 per cent votes while BSP bagged 10 and SP won 5. The SP and BSP had contested the last polls together. Congress won the Gandhi family bastion Raebareli, where Sonia Gandhi defeated BJP's Dinesh Pratap Singh.
The Samajwadi Party (SP) on Tuesday released its first list of 16 candidates for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Dimple Yadav, the wife of SP chief Akhilesh Yadav, will contest from Mainpuri. The SP, which is part of the INDIA bloc, is currently engaged in seat-sharing talks with Congress. Former chief minister Akhilesh Yadav has offered 11 seats to Congress, which currently holds one seat in Uttar Pradesh.
SP's first list of candidates for the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections
Sambhal: Shafiqur Rahman Barq Firozabad: Akshay Yadav Mainpur: Dimple Yadav Eta: Devesh Shakya Budaun: Dharmendra Yadav Khiri: Utkarsh Verma Dhaurahra: Anand Bhadauria Unnao: Anu Tandon Lucknow: Ravidas Mehrotra Farukhabad: Naval Kishore Shakya Akbarpur: Rajaram Pal Banda: Shivshankar Singh Patel Faizabad: Avdesh Prasad Ambedkar Nagar: Lalji verma Basti: Ram Prasad Choudhary Gorakhpur: Kajal Nishad
In Uttar Pradesh, which has 80 Lok Sabha seats, the contest is likely to be between the BJP and SP-Congress. The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) of Mayawati has not allied with any party and will contest all seats.
In the last 2019 elections, the BJP had won 62 seats with nearly 50 per cent votes while BSP bagged 10 and SP won 5. The SP and BSP had contested the last polls together. Congress won the Gandhi family bastion Raebareli, where Sonia Gandhi defeated BJP's Dinesh Pratap Singh.