LUCKNOW: The Bahujan Samaj Party (
BSP
) on Thursday released another
list
of
candidates
for Lok Sabha elections in
UP
, in which it declared candidates for three more seats in the state while in the other three, it replaced the candidates that it declared earlier.
The party declared candidates for Gonda, Kaiserganj and Barabanki (SC) seats in the eleventh list of candidates released on Thursday.
In Gonda and Kaiserganj, the party has fielded Brahmin candidates. Saurabh Kumar Mishra and Narendra Pandey will contest Gonda and Kaiserganj seats, respectively. In Barabanki, which is reserved for SCs, Shiv Kumar Dohre will be in the fray from BSP.
In Gonda, Kirti Vardhan Singh, the sitting BJP MP, is in the fray for the third time while Samajwadi Party has fielded Shreya Verma. In Barabanki, BJP has Rajrani Rawat in the fray while Congress has fielded Tanuj Punia.
The three seats where the party replaced the candidates that it declared earlier are Sant Kabir Nagar, Azamgarh and Domariyaganj.
In Azamgarh, it was Sabiha Ansari, a Congress defector, who was fielded by the party. On Thursday, she was replaced with Mashood Ahmed. In Sant Kabir Nagar, Syed Danish has been replaced with Nadeem Ashraf.
In Azamgarh, BSP has changed candidates twice. The party had initially fielded its former UP state president, Bhim Rajbhar but then replaced him with Ansari.
In Domariyaganj, Mohammad Nadeem Mirza will contest instead of Khwaja Shamsuddin, whom the party had fielded earlier.
BSP is yet to declare candidates in Kushinagar, Deoria, Shravasti, Bansgaon (SC) and Allahabad LS seats.
Meanwhile, BSP has fielded Alok Kushwaha from Lucknow East constituency, where bypoll will be held due to the death of BJP MLA Ashutosh Tondon.
