Samajwadi Party on Monday released its first list of 159 candidates for the assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh.
SP chief Akhilesh Yadav will contest from Karhal seat in Mainpuri district. The SP has denied ticket to son of Bharatiya Janata Party rebel and former minister Swami Prasad Maurya from Unchaahar constituency in Rae Bareli district. SP has retained its sitting MLA Manoj Pandey from this seat.
Samajwadi Party Lok Sabha MP Mohammad Azam Khan, presently in jail, will contest from Rampur.
The SP list includes 30 Muslims and 12 candidates from Yadav community.
The list of candidates: Karhal-Akhilesh Yadav, Behat-Umar Ali Khan, Nakud-Dharm Singh Saini, Saharanpur City-Sanjay Garg, Saharanpur Rural-Ashu Malik, Deoband-Kartikeya Rana, Gangoh-Indrasen, Kairana-Nahid Hasan, Charthawal-Pankaj Kumar Malik, Najibabad-Tasleem Ahmed, Nagina (SC)-Manoj Kumar Paras, Badhapur-Kapil Kumar, Dhampur-Naimul Hasan, Chandpur-Swami Omwesh, Noorpur-Ramavtar Singh, Kanth-Kamal Akhtar, Thakurdwara-Nawab Jaan, Moradabad-Mohammad Nasir, Moradabad Nagar-Mohd Yusuf Ansari, Kundarki-Ziaur Rahman, Bilauri-Faheem Irfan, Chandausi-Vimlesh, Asmoli-Pinki Singh, Sambhal-Iqbal Mehmood, Gunnaur-Ram Khiladi Singh, Suar-Abdullah Azam Khan, Chamarkwa-Nasir Ahmed Khan, Bilaspur-Amarjeet Singh, Rampur-Mohd Azam Khan, Milak-Vijay Singh, Dhanaura-Vivek Singh, Naugawan Sadat-Samarpal Singh, Amroha-Mehboob Ali, Hasanpur-Mukhiya Gurjar, Sardhana-Atul Pradhan, Hastinapur-Yogesh Verma, Kithaur-Shahid Manzoor, Meerut-Rafiq Ansari, Meerut (South)-Md Aadil, Sahibabad–Amarpal, Ghaziabad-Vishal Verma, Dhaulana-Aslam Ali, Garhmukteshwar-Ravindra Chaudhary, Noida-Sunil Chaudhary, Dadri-Rajkumar, Sikandrabad-Rahul Yadav, Dibai-Harish Kumar, Khurja-Banshi Singh, Atrauli-Veeresh Yadav, Charra-Lakshmi Dhangar, Kol-Shaj Istahak, Aligarh-Zafar Alam, Hathras (SC)- Brijmohan, Maut-Sanjay Lathar, Mathura-Devendra Agarwal, Etmadpur-Virendra Singh Chauhan, Agra Cantonment-Kunwar Chand, Agra South-Vinay Agarwal, Bahedi-Ataurrehman , Meerganj-Sultan Beg, Bhojipura-Shahjil Islam Ansari, Nawabganj-Bhagwatsharan Gangwar, Faridpur (SC)-Vijay Pal Singh, Bithrichaipur- Agam Maurya, Bareilly-Rajesh Kumar Agarwal, Bareilly Cantonment - Supriya Aaron, Aanwala- Pandit Radha Krishna Sharma, Pilibhit-Shailendra Gangwar, Barkheda -Hemraj Verma, Puranpur-Aarti, Katra-Rajesh Yadav, Jalalabad-Niraj Nalinish, Tilhar-Roshan Lal Verma, Puwayan-Upendra Pal Singh, Shahjahanpur-Tanweer Khan, Dadraul -Rajesh Kumar Verma, Palia-Pripendra Pal Singh 'Kaku', Nidhasan-RS Kushwaha, Agra North-Gyanendra, Fatehabad-Rupali Dixit, Bah-Madhusdan Sharma, Tundla-Rakesh Babu, Jasrana-Sachin Yadav, Firozabad-Saifur Rahman, Shikohabad-Mukesh Verma, Sirsaganj-Sarvesh Singh, Kasganj-Manpal Singh, Amanpur-Satyabhan Singh, Aliganj-Rameshwar Singh Yadav, Etah-Jugendra Singh Yadav, Jalesar-Ranjeet Suman, Mainpuri-Rajkumar alia Raju Yadav, Bhogaon-Alok Shakya, Kishni-Brijesh Katheria, Bisauli-Ashutosh Maurya, Sahaswan-Brijesh Yadav, Bilsi-Chandra Prakash Maurya, Shekhupur-Himanshu Yadav, Dataganj-Arjun Singh, Gola Gokaran Nath-Vinay Tiwari, Srinagar-Ramsaran, Lakhimpur-Utkarsh Verma, Maholi-Anoop Gupta, Sitapur-Radhey Shyam Jaiswal, Hargaon-Ramhet Bharti, Bisma-Afzal Kausal, Sevata-Mahendra Singh alias Jheen Babu, Hardoi-Anil Verma, Shahbad-Asif Khan Babbu, Gopamau-Rajeswari, Bilgram Mallanwan-Brijesh Kumar Verma (Tillu Bhaiya), Safipur-Sudhir Rawat, Mohaan-Anchal Verma, Unnao-Abhinav Kumar, Bhagwantnagar-Ankit Parihar, Sisamau-Haji Irfan Solanki, Arya Nagar- Amitabh Bajpayi, Maharajpur-Fateh Bahadur Singh 'Gill', Ghatampur (SC)-Bhagwati Sagar, Madhogadh-Raghwendra Pratap Singh, Kalpi-Sriram Pal, Orai-Dayashankar Verma, Babina-Yashpal Yadav, Jhansi-Sitaram Kushwaha, Mauranipur (SC)-Tilak Chandra Ahirwar, Garautha-Deep Narayan Singh, Lalitpur-Ramesh Prasad, Mahrauni (SC)-Pheran Lal Ahirwar, Rath (SC)-Chandrawati, Mahoba-Manoj Tiwari, Charkhari-Ajendra Singh Rajput, Tindwari-Brijesh Prajapati, Naraini-Daddu Prasad, Jahanabad-Madan Gopal, Bindki-Rameshwar Dayal Gulta 'Dayalu Gupta', Fatehpur-Chandra Prakash Lodhi, Ayahshah-Vishambhar Prasad Nishad, Husainganj-Usha Maurya, Bharthana (SC)-Raghwendra Kumar Singh, Dibiyapur-Pradeep Yadav, Auraiya (SC)-Jitendra Dohre, Rasoolabad (SC)-Kamlesh Chandra Diwakar, Akbarpur Raniya- RP Kushwaha, Bhognipur-Narendra Pal Singh, Bithoor-Munendra Shukla, Kalyanpur-Satish Kumar Nigam, Purwa-Uday Raj, Harchandpur-Rahul Shiv Ganesh Lodhi, Sareni-Devendra Pratap Singh , Unchahar-Manoj Pandey, Kaimganj-Sarvesh Ambedkar, Amritpur-Jitendra Yadav, Farrukhabad-Suman Maurya, Bhojpur-Arshad Jamal, Chhibramau-Arvind Yadav, Tirwa-Anil Kumar Pal, Kannauj-Anil Kumar and Jaswantnagar-Shivpal Singh Yadav.
