Lok Sabha elections: BSP releases list of 12 candidates, Nand Kishore Pundir to contest from Ghaziabad

The Bahujan Samaj Party on Wednesday released a list of 12 candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. The Mayawati led party has fielded Nand Kishore Pundir from Ghaziabad. With this, the Mayawati-led party has declared its candidates for 37 seats out of total 80 parliamentary seats in the state.In Mathura, the party has changed its candidate and now Suresh Singh will be in the electoral fray in place of Kamal Kant Upmanyu. Singh has been made BSP candidate against sitting BJP MP and actor Hema Malini.

The party has fielded Hitendra Kumar and Gulshan Dev Shakya from the Aligarh and Mainpuri constituencies respectively.

According to the list, Anshay Kalra Rockeyji will seek election from Kheri, Ashok Kumar Pandey from Unnao and Rajesh Kumar alias Manoj Pradhan from Mohanlalganj (SC).The party has fielded Sarvar Malik from Lucknow, Imran Bin Jafar from Kannauj, Shubh Narain from Kaushambi (SC), Indu Chaudhary from Lalganj (SC) and Manish Tripathi from Mirzapur.

Sarvar Malik, who has been pitted against sitting BJP MP Rajnath Singh and Ravidas Mehrotra of Samajwadi Party, had unsuccessfully contested 2022 assembly elections from Lucknow North seat as BSP nominee. His wife Shaheen Bano had unsuccessfully contested the mayoral election in Lucknow in 2023.

Indu Chaudhary is an academician associated with the BHU and Ashok Kumar Pandey is a journalist, a party leader said. Pandey has been fielded against sitting BJP MP Sakshi Mahraj.

Rajesh Kumar, the candidate from Mohanlalganj seat, has been associated with the party cadre for long, he added.(With agency inputs)