The Indian National Congress on Thursday released its first list of candidates for the upcoming Uttar Pradesh Elections 2022. The first list consists of a total of 125 candidates. Out of which, 40% of the total tickets have been given to women candidates while 40% are youth candidates.
Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi, while announcing the candidate list, in her press conference said that Congress is giving tickets to 50 women out of 125 total candidates in the first list.
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The notable mention is of Asha Devi, the mother of the Unnao rape victim has also got a ticket from the Congress party. “Tickets given to struggling women, from organisations to journalists, tickets have also been given to women from the acting field,” said Priyanka Gandhi.
Here is a list of some striking nominations that the Congress party has fielded. Noida to Pankhuri Pathak. Lucknow Central to Sadaf Zafar and Salman Khurshid’s wife Louise Khurshid.
Constituency: Candidates name
Naijibababd: Hazi Mohd Saleem Ansari
Nagna: Henreita Rajeev Singh
Nehtaur: Meenakshi Singh
Moradabad Rural: Mohd Nadeem
Moradabad Nagar: Mohd Rizwan Qureshi
Asmoli: Hazi Marghoob Alam
Sambhal: Nida Ahmad
Suar: Haider Ali Khan
Chamraua: Yusuf Ali Yusuf
Bilaspur: Sanjay Kapoor
Rampur: Kazim Ali Khan
Dhanaura: Samar Pal Singh
Amroha: Saleem Khan
Hastinapur: Archana Gautam
Kithore: Babita Gurjar
Chhaprauli: Dr Yunus Chaudhary
Loni: Yameen Malik M
uradnagar: Bijendra Yadav
Ghaziabad: Sushan Goyal
Garhmukteshwar: Abha Chaudhary
Noida: Pankhuri Pathak
Dadri: Deepak Bhati Chotiwala
Jewar: Manoj Chaudhary
Barauli: Gaurang Dev Chauhan
Atrauli: Dharmendra Kumar
Koil: Vivek Bansal
Aligarh: Mohd Salman Imtiyaz
Goverdhan: Deepak Chaudhary
Mathura: Pradeep Mathur
Baldev: Vinesh Kumar Sanwal Valmiki
Etmadpur : Shivani Singh Baghel
Agra South: Anuj Sharma
Agra North: Vinod Kumar Bansal
Agra Rural: Upendra Singh
Kheragarh: RamNath Shikarwar
Fatehabad: Hotam Singh Nishad
Bah: Manoj Dixit
Tundla: Yogesh Diwakar
Jasrana: Vijay Nath Singh Verma
Shikohabad: Shashi Sharma
Sirsaganj: Pratima Pal
Etah: Gunjan Mishra
Mainpuri: Vineeta Shakya
Karhal: Gyanvati Yadav
Bisauli: Pragya Yashoda
Badaun: Rajni Singh
Baheri: Santosh Bharti
Meerganj: Mohd Ilyas
Bareilly Cantt: Supriya Aron
Aonla: Omveer Yadav
Barkhera: Harpreet Singh Chabba
Puranpur: Ishwar Dayal Paswan
Jalalabad: Gurmeet Singh
Tilhar: Rajnish Kumar Gupta
Powayan: Anuj Kumari
Shahjahanpur: Poonam Pandey
Dadraul: Tanveer Safdar
Mohammdi: Ritu Singh
Sitapur: Shameena Shafiq
Biswan: Abhinav Bhargva
Bangermau: Arti Bajpai
Mohan: Madhu Rawat
Unnao: Asha Singh
Bakshi Ka Talab: Lalan Kumar
Sarojini Nagar: Rudra Daman Singh
Lucknow Central: Sadaf Jafar
Lucknow Cantt: Dilpreet Singh
Mohanlalganj: Mamata Choudhary
Bachhrawan: Sushil Pasi
Tiloi:Pradeep Singhai
Salon: Arjun Passi
Jagdishpur: Vijay Passi
Kadipur: Niklesh Saroj
Farrukhabad: Louise Khurshid
Auraiya: Sarita Dohre
Bilhaur: Usha Rani Kori
Arya Nagar: Pramod Kr Jaiswal
Kidwai Nagar: Ajay Kapoor
Kanpur Cantt: Sohail Akhtar Ansari
Maharajpur: Kanishka Pandey
Kalpi: Umakanti
Orai: Urmila Sonkar Khabri
Mahoba: Sagar Singh
Manikpur: Rajna Bharatilal Pandey
Husainganj: Shivakant Tiwari
Rampur Khas: Aradhana Mishra Morna
Babaganj: Beena Rani
Pratapgarh: Neeraj Tiwari
Manjhanpur: Arun Kr Vidyarthi
Phaphamau: Durgesh Pandey
Allahabad North: Anugrah Narain Singh
Allahabad South: Alpana Nishad
Bara: Manju Sant
Ram Nagar: Gyanesh Shukla
Zaidpur: Tanuj Punia
Dariyabad: Chitra Verma
Haidergarh: Nirmala Chaudhary
Utraula: Dhirendra Pratap Singh
Gonda: Rama Kashyap
Domariyaganj: Kanti Pandey
Harraiya: Laboni Singh
Rudhauli:Basant Chaudhary
Pharendra: Virendra Chaudhary
Maharajganj: Alok Prasad
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Aradhana Mishra has been given a ticket from Rampur Khas who is also the present MLA from the constituency.
A ticket from Umbha has been given to the leader who raised her voice for the Sonbhadra massacre victims. Ticket to Asha worker Poonam Pandey from Shahjahanpur. Congress leader, Sadaf Jafar, who went to jail for anti-NRC agitation has been given a ticket from Lucknow Central.
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Uttar Pradesh will go to poll in seven phases to elect 403 MLAs between February 10 and March 7. The counting of votes will be held on March 10.
