Samajwadi Party, on Friday, announced the names of two more candidates for the Lok Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh.

Pushpendra Saroj has been given the ticket from Kaushambi and Ajay Pratap Singh from Kushinagar.

The SP had suffered defeats in both these seats in the 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha elections with the Bharatiya Janata Party candidates emerging victorious.

In the parliamentary 2019 election in Kushinagar, the party had given its ticket to NP Kushwaha who suffered defeat at the hands of BJP candidate Vijay Kumar Dubey. In the 2014 election, SP’s Radhe Shyam Singh ranked fourth in the constituency where BJP’s Rajesh Pandey had emerged victorious.

In the 2019 election in Kaushambi, BJP’s Vinod Sonkar had defeated SP’s Indrajit Saroj. In the 2014 Lok Sabha election, BJP candidate Vinod Sonkar had defeated SP’s Shailendra Kumar who had won the seat in the 2009 poll.

Uttar Pradesh will vote in all the seven phases of Lok Sabha elections starting April 19. Kaushambi will go to polls in the fifth phase on May 20 while polling will be held in Kushinagar on June 1 in the last phase of the elections.

The results of the elections will be declared on June 4.

Meanwhile, the Election Commission of India on Friday issued the notification for the third phase of Lok Sabha elections in 10 constituencies of Uttar Pradesh. 

The nominations commenced from Friday and the last date for filing papers is April 19. The scrutiny of papers will be done on April 22 and April 22 is the last date for withdrawal of papers. The polling for the seats going to polls in the third phase will be held on May 7.