Cong releases list of 45 candidates for UP assembly polls

New Delhi, Mar 28 (UNI) The Congress today released a list of 45 candidates, including five replacements, who will contest the assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh.

With this the AICC has announced its candidates for 336 seats.

Following is the list: Sandeep Bhardwaj (in place of Ch Rifaqat Hussain in Hasanpur), Shariyat Ullah (in place of Arif Hussain in Sambhal), Dhiraj Kanchal (in place of Maj Jagatpal Singh in Moradabad West), Thakur Vishwas Pahalwan (in place of Jahid Ali in Suar Tanda), Abrar Ahmed (in place of Surendra Pal Singh in Binawar), Praveen Singh Airon (Bareilly Cantt), Dr Anil Sharma (Bareilly city), Sardar Joginder Singh (Pilibhit), Sharadvir Singh (Jalalabad), Narveer Singh (Dadraul), Karunakar Mishra (Bikapur), Nurul Hassan (Gainsari), Ubedur Rehman (Utraula), Sushil Kumar Paswan "Babban" (Mankapur-SC), Virendra Pratap Nr Pandey (Harraiya), Dr Satish Rana (Bansgaon SC), Akilesh Shukla (Dhuriapur), Dr Sanjayan Tripathi (Kauriram), Sidharth Priya Srivastava (Gorakhpur), Mohd Younis (Siswa), Ranjeet Singh (Ramkola), Vachaspati Pandey (Seorahi).

Mrs Shashi Sharma (Fazilnagar), Rajesh Pandey (Kasia), Suyashmani Tripathi (Gauribazar), Jai Prakash Jaiswal (Deoria), Bhola Pandey (Salempur), Devender Chauhan (Natthupur), Jawahar Chouhan (Chilkahar), Ram Adhar Joseph (Chakia SC), Dr Daya Shankar Mishra (Varanasi South), Dr Radhe Shyam Mishra (Gangapur), Kashi Nath (Bhadohi SC), Rajnath Ram (Kerakat SC), Shridhar Singh (Beyalsi), Shobran Sonval (Dudhi SC), Parameshwar Dayal (Robertsganj SC), Bholanath Bachchan (Chunar), Dr Ganga Ram Bind (Majhwa), Bhagwati Prasad Choudhary (Chhanvey SC), Vishram Das (Meja SC), Dal Bahadur Singh (Bara), Syed Kasim Khan (Jahanabad), Yogendra Singh (Umardha) and Vivek Singh (Banda).

The list was released by Mr Oscar Fernandes, Permanent Invitee to the Congress Working Committee (CWC).

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