Lok Sabha polls: SP releases third list of candidates from UP, fields Shivpal Yadav from Budaun

NEW DELHI: The Samajwadi Party on Tuesday announced its third list of candidates from Uttar Pradesh for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.

Shivpal Yadav, a senior leader and the uncle of party chief Akhilesh Yadav, will be contesting from Budaun parliamentary constituency instead of Dharmendra Yadav, the nephew of party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav as announced in the first list . He is currently the MLA from the Jaswantnagar assembly constituency in Etawah district.

Iqra Hasan from Kairana,Praveen Singh Aron from Bareilly, Surendra Singh Patel from Varanasi and Ajendra Singh Rajput from Hamirpur are the other candidates announced by the party.

The Samajwadi Party has declared a total of 31 candidates for the upcoming elections.

Meanwhile, as part of the INDIA bloc, SP has offered 17 Lok Sabha seats to its alliance partner, the Congress who is yet to accept the proposal.