Bahujan Samaj Party, on Friday, released its fourth list of nine candidates for the Lok Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh. The list included the names of Bhim Rajbhar and Balkrishna Chauhan.
BSP chief Mayawati has fielded former party state president Bhim Rajbhar from Azamgarh and Balkrishna Chauhan from Ghosi Lok Sabha seats.
Apart from these, BSP tickets have been given to Mohammad Irfan from Etah, Shyam Kishore Awasthi from Dhaurahra, Sachchidanand Pandey from Faizabad and Dayashankar Mishra from Basti.
The names of Javed Simnani from Gorakhpur, Satyendra Kumar Maurya from Chandauli and Dhaneshwar Gautam from Robertsganj also appear in the list.
The BSP is contesting the Lok Sabha elections alone. Mayawati is expected to hold 40 election rallies in Uttar Pradesh, starting with Saharanpur and Muzaffarnagar on April 14.
Mayawati’s political successor and BSP national coordinator Akash Anand has been holding election rallies in western UP since April 6. Along with Mayawati, her young nephew Akash is playing an important role in the election campaigns. Akash is expected to hold public meetings in Hathras on April 13 and Saharanpur and Kairana on April 17.
Meanwhile, in a setback to BSP, party’s former MP Malook Nagar joined the Rashtriya Lok Dal in the presence of party chief Jayant Chaudhary in Delhi on Thursday. Nagar left the BSP reportedly after he was denied the ticket in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
“When I became an MP, the RLD, Samajwadi Party and BSP played a huge role. Jayant played a significant role as well. He held big meetings in five Vidhan Sabhas segments of my Lok Sabha constituency. That is why there were hoardings of all three parties in west Uttar Pradesh. After winning as an MP, no one saw my hoarding because the parties parted ways. Malook Nagar became the MP from three of the parties,” Nagar said after joining the RLD.
Nagar had won the 2019 Lok Sabha election on the BSP ticket. The BSP was then in alliance with the RLD and the SP.
“I always raised many issues in Parliament, rising above party and politics, about the work done by the government and also openly criticised any shortcomings of the ruling party,” he added.
