UP: Samajwadi Party announces candidates for upcoming assembly by-polls

The Samajwadi Party on Friday announced its three candidates for the bypolls which will be held on four assembly constituencies in Uttar Pradesh along with the Lok Sabha electionsThe party has nominated Avadhesh Kumar Verma to run for the Dadraul seat Rakesh Yadav for Gainsari and Vijay Singh Gond for Dudhi This information was shared from the Samajwadi Partys headquarters in LucknowMeanwhile the Samajwadi Party called off its ties with Apna Dal Kameravadi on Thursday amid the differences between the alliance partners that had been playing out in public for a long timepictwittercomXguTMWA9lqmdash Samajwadi Party samajwadiparty March 22 2024Responding to a media inquiry on Thursday SP president Akhilesh Yadav said We were in alliance with Apna Dal Kameravadi in the 2022 Assembly polls but it is not in 2024The statement by the SP Chief came a day after Apna Dal Kameravadi announced candidates from three Lok Sabha seats in Uttar PradeshThe Apna Dal K had announced that it would field three candidates in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls The seats were Phoolpur Mirzapur and Kaushambi in eastern Uttar Pradesh all won by the BJP in 2019The Samajwadi Party on Wednesday evening too announced six nominees including a candidate for Mirzapur which the Apna Dal K had claimed for itselfRift between the two parties came to the fore when Apna Dal K leader and SP MLA Pallavi Patel refused to vote for two SP candidates in the February Rajya Sabha polls saying that the SP had ignored its own PDA Pichda Dalit Alpasankhyak formula in its choice of candidates She eventually claimed she had voted for the only Dalit among the three SP candidatesThe Apna Dal K is a faction of the Apna Dal founded by OBC leader Dr Sonelal Patel who died in a road accident in 2009 The other factionBJP ally Apna Dal Sonelal is headed by Krishna Patels other daughter Anupriya who is a Union minister and the MP from MirzapurBefore the 2022 state polls the SP had formed an umbrella alliance with several smaller parties including the Apna Dal K Jayant Chaudharys Rashtriya Lok Dal RLD Keshav Dev Mauryas Mahan Dal and Om Prakash Rajbhars Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party SBSPThe RLD and the SBSP have deserted to join the BJPled NDA while the Mahan Dal has offered support to the BSPThe 2024 Lok Sabha elections in Bihar are anticipated to be a major political event The states 40 constituencies will participate in the polls which are scheduled to take place in seven stages from April 19 to June 1 The election results are expected to be announced on June 4In the Lok Sabha elections of 2019 in Uttar Pradesh the Bharatiya Janata Party BJP came out on top with 62 seats Apna Dal Soneylal won 2 seats The Samajwadi Party SP and Bahujan Samaj Party BSP could only secure 5 and 10 seats respectivelyIn the 2014 Lok Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh the BJP secured 71 seats Apna Dal won 2 seats The SP could only manage to win 5 seatsThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever