The Bahujan Samaj Party on Saturday announced the names of 53 candidates for the upcoming assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh.

Party chief Mayawati said that the names of the remaining candidates will be released over the next few days. “We have finalized candidates on 53 seats in the first list, remaining 5 will we released in a day or two,” she said while addressing a press conference in Lucknow, reported ANI. 

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“In the upcoming assembly elections, the people will definitely bring our party to power again and I also want to assure them that after coming to power this time our party will again run the government in all matters like its previous regime,” she added.

The candidates are for western Uttar Pradesh seats which will go to polls in the first phase on February 10.

Here is the full list:

Constituency – Candidate Name

Kairana – Rajendra Singh Upadhyay 

Shamli – Brijendra Malik

Budhana – Haji Mohammad Anish

Charthawal – Salman Saeed

Purkaji (SC) – Surendra Pal Singh

Muzaffarnagar – Pushpankar Pal

Khatauli – Majid Siddiqui 

Meerapur – Mohammed Shalim

Siwalkhas – Mukarram Ali alias Nanhe Khan

Meerut Cantt. – Amit Sharma 

Meerut South – Kunwar Dilshad Ali 

Chhaprauli – Mohammad Shahin Chaudhary 

Baraut – Ankit Sharma 

Loni – Haji Aakil Chaudhary

Muradnagar – Haji Ayyub Idrishi

Ghaziabad – Suresh Bansal 

Modinagar – Poonam Garg 

Dhaulana – Wasid Pradhan

Hapur (SC) – Manish Kumar Singh alias Monu 

Garh Mukteshwar – Mohammad Arif 

Noida – Kriparam Sharma 

Dadri – Manveer Singh Bhati 

Jewar – Narendra Bhati Dada

Secunderabad – Chaudhary Manveer Singh 

Syana – Sunil Bhardwaj

Anupshahr – Rameshwar Singh Lodhi

Dibai – Karan Pal Singh 

Shikarpur – Mohammad Rafi alias Fadda

Khurja (SC) – Vinod Kumar Jatav 

Khair (SC) – Prempal Singh Jatav 

Barauli – Narendra Sharma 

Atrauli – Omveer Singh 

Chharra – Tilak Raj Yadav 

Kol – Mohammad Bilal 

Aligarh – Razia Khan 

Iglas (SC) – Sushil Kumar Jatav 

Chhata – Sonpal Singh 

Mant – Shyam Sundar Sharma 

Govardhan – Raj Kumar Rawat 

Mathura. – Jagjit Chaudhary 

Baldev (SC) – Ashok Kumar Suman

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.

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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won the 2017 UP election by an overwhelming three-quarters majority of 325 seats despite not projecting a chief ministerial candidate before the election. On 18 March 2017, Yogi Adityanath was appointed as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. Then Uttar Pradesh BJP chief Keshav Prasad Maurya and Dinesh Sharma were appointed as Deputy Chief Ministers.