UP by Polls: Samajwadi Party issues 1st list of 6 candidates

Lucknow: Samajwadi Party (SP) on Wednesday issued the first list of 6 candidates for the Uttar Pradesh by-elections.  

The SP list includes Tej Pratap Singh Yadav from Karhal, Naseem Solanki from Sisamau, Muftifah Siddiqui from Phulpur, Ajit Prasad from Milkipur, Shobhavati Verma from Katehari and Jyoti Bind from Majhawan.

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The by polls will be held in Katehari (Ambedkar Nagar), Karhal (Mainpuri), Milkipur (Ayodhya), Meerapur (Muzaffarnagar), Ghaziabad, Majhawan (Mirzapur), Sisamau (Kanpur city), Khair (Aligarh), Phulpur (Prayagraj) and Kundarki (Moradabad).

9 MLAs elevated
Nine of 10 seats were fallen vacant after MLAs were elected to Lok Sabha in General Elections held earlier this year. The bypoll in Sisamau is being held following the disqualification of SP MLA Irfan Solanki.   

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