UP elections 2022: Mayawati releases second list of BSP candidates

Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati on Saturday released the second list of 51 candidates of her party that will field in the upcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections. The candidates will be in the fray in the second phase of elections where polling will be held on 55 seats.

“This time we’ve given the slogan ‘Har Polling Booth Ko Jeetana hai, BSP Ko Satta Mein Lana Hai’,” said Mayawati.

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“I hope party workers will work hard and will form a BSP government like in 2007,” she added.

Recently, on her 66th birthday on January 15, Mayawati had released the first list of 53 candidates for the first phase of polls. The polling in the first phase will be held in 58 constituencies on February 10.

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Addressing a press conference on the occasion, she had asked party workers to give her a birthday gift by making the BSP government in the state.

Days later, the party announced changes to two seats in Agra district.

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Shabeer Abbas, the Congressman in Agra, was a surprise inclusion in the BSP and was declared candidate for Agra North. Abbas replaced Murari Lal Goyal, who is a Vaishya. The Vaishya community dominates Agra North.

In the 2017 Assembly elections, the BJP won a landslide victory, bagging as many as 312 seats. The party secured a 39.67 per cent vote share in the elections for the 403-member Uttar Pradesh Assembly.

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Samajwadi Party (SP) bagged 47 seats, BSP won 19 while Congress could manage to win only seven seats.

Uttar Pradesh will go to the polls in seven phases beginning February 10 and results will be declared on March 10.