Lok Sabha Election 2024: Samajwadi Party release Another List Of Six Candidate

Samajwadi Party on Wednesday announced another list of six candidates with their constituency to contest in the 18th Uttar Pradesh Lok Sabha Elections. The party has released the photo through a post on X mentioning the candidate's name and this constituency.

The candidate Ziaur Rahman Barq contested from Sambhal in Lok Sabha Polls who is also a setting MLA from Kundarki, Manoj Chaudhary from Baghpat, Rahul Awana from Gautam Budha Nagar, Bhagwat Sharan Gangwar from Pilibhit, Rajeev Rai from Ghoshi and  Rajendra S Bind from Mirjapur. 

pic.twitter.com/NcRMppUZHh — Samajwadi Party (@samajwadiparty) March 20, 2024

Earlier, the Samajwadi Party released the candidate list which mentions the prospective candidates for Seven constituencies including, Bijnaur, Aligarh, Meerut, Hatharas, Bhadohi, Lalganj and Nagauna. 

Earlier, the SP had declared sitting Sambhal MP Shafiqur Rahman Burk as its candidate, who died in the last week of February. Ziaur Rahman Burk is his grandson and is SP MLA from the Kundarki seat of Sambhal. The party has replaced the previously announced Mahendra Nagar as its candidate from Gautam Buddha Nagar. It has now replaced him with Awana.

This is the sixth list of nominees of the party for the seven-phase parliamentary elections. With this list, the total number of candidates declared by the SP stands at 47. 

After the negotiation of seat sharing, the Samajwadi party has joined the INDIA alliance where the SP has left 17 seats for Congress while leading with 63 seats out of 80 total Lok Sabha constituencies in Uttar Pradesh. It has given the Bhadohi seat to the Trinamool Congress (TMC).

Meanwhile, the Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav took potshots at the BJP's slogan of "400-paar", and allegedly said that the people of the country have given the slogan "400-haar' and claimed that the party which has spoken "lies" on all issues is on its way out.