UP Elections 2022: Congress announces first list of 125 candidates, check details

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.