UP: BSP releases list of candidates for Salempur, Bhadohi and Hamirpur Lok Sabha seats

Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], April 24 : Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) on Wednesday released a list of its candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
The list includes names of four candidates, three for Lok Sabha polls and one for assembly by-polls.
Three candidates for Lok Sabha polls are Bheem Rajbhar, Irfan Ahmed and Nirdosh Kumar Dixit respectively from Salempur, Bhadohi and Hamirpur Lok Sabha seats.
While Sarvesh Chandra Mishra has been declared as BSP's candidate from Dadraul Assembly constituency in Shahjahanpur district.
Earlier on April 16, BSP released a new list of eleven candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh.
The BSP has fielded Athar Jamal Lari against Prime Minister Narendra Modi to contest polls from the Varanasi parliamentary constituency.
According to the list, the Mainpuri Lok Sabha ticket has been changed and given to Shiv Prasad Yadav while Shrikala Singh, wife of gangster-turned-politician Dhananjay Singh, lodged in jail, has been fielded from the Jaunpur constituency.
Uttar Pradesh, which sends the maximum number of MPs, 80, to Parliament, will vote in all seven phases. The second phase of the ongoing polls is set to take place on April 26.
Voting will take place across India in seven phases till June 1, while counting will take place on June 4.