2019 Uttar Pradesh Lok Sabha Elections - BSP releases first list of 11 candidates Friday March 22,2019

A day after the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) announced its candidates for 28 parliamentary constituencies in Uttar Pradesh, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) on Friday released its first list of 11 candidates for the state.

The party has declared candidates on three Scheduled Caste seats of Nagina, Bulandshahr and Agra and politically crucial seats of Saharanpur and Meerut.
 
While the BSP has fielded local businessman Fazlur Rahman against BJP's Raghav Lakhanpal in Saharanpur, Haji Mohammed Yaqub will contest against two-time BJP MP Rajendra Agrawal in Meerut.

The list has come hours after BSP released a list of star campaigners that included the name of Mayawati's nephew Akash Anand. Last week, BSP alliance partner SP had released its first list of candidates for the upcoming polls. While SP patriarch Mulayam Singh will contest from Mainpuri, party chief Akhilesh Yadav’s cousins Dharmendra Yadav and Akshay Yadav will contest from Badaun and Firozabad, respectively.

Here's the first list of Bahujan Samaj Party candidates

1. Saharanpur Lok Sabha seat- Haji Fazlur Rahman
2. Bijnor Lok Sabha seat- Maluk Nagar
3. Nagina Lok Sabha seat- Girish Chandra
4. Amroha Lok Sabha seat- Danish Ali 
5. Meerut Lok Sabha seat- Haji Mohammed Yaqub
6. Gautam Buddh Nagar Lok Sabha seat- Satbir Nagar
7. Bulandshahr Lok Sabha seat- Yogesh Verma
8. Aligarh Lok Sabha seat- Ajith Balyan
9. Agra Lok Sabha seat- Manoj Kumar Saini
10. Fatehpur Sikri Lok Sabha seat- Rajvir Singh 
11. Aonla Lok Sabha seat- Ruchi Veera