Samajwadi Party's First List Of Candidates Creates Uncertainty Over Alliance With Congress

Описание: Creating an uncertainty over an alliance with Congress, Samajwadi Party national president Akhilesh Yadav declared a list of 191 candidates for the first three phases of elections. Interestingly, the list include SP candidates on eight seats where Congress has sitting MLAs. SP said that it was awaiting a positive response from the Congress regarding an alliance. The seats of Congress’s sitting MLAs where SP has fielded a candidate include—Mathura, Bilaspur, Kidvai Nagar, Khurja, Syana, Kapur, Swar and Shamli. Congress Legislative Party leader in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly Pradeep Mathur is an MLA from Mathura and SP has fielded Ashok Agrawal there. SP national vice-president Kiranmoy Nanda told media that SP wants the alliance with Congress but according to its own formula. Akhilesh’s uncle Shivpal Singh Yadav, too, is in the list and he will contest from his sitting seat – Jaswant Nagar. Cabinet minister Azam Khan is candidate from Rampur and his son Abdullah Azam is candidate from Swar.

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