Akhilesh names Modi minister's sister as candidate

February 02, 2022 20:02

The Samajwadi Party on Wednesday declared Union minister Anupriya Patel's sister Pallavi Patel and former UP Cabinet minister Swami Prasad Maurya in the Yogi Adityanath government among three new candidates for the state assembly polls.

Former UP minister Abhishek Mishra in the Akhilesh Yadav government was declared the third candidate.

Patel, Maurya and Mishra will be fielded respectively on Fazilnagar seat in Kushinagar district, Sirathu in Kaushambi and Sarojini Nagar in Lucknow assembly seats.

The assembly seats in Lucknow district go to polls on February 23, Kaushambi district on February 27 and Kushinagar district on March 3.

Maurya, who quit the Adityanath government within days after the announcement of the assembly poll schedule and joined the SP, was fielded on the Fazilnagar assembly seat in the Kushinagar district.

A five-time MLA, Maurya is currently the sitting MLA from Padrauna in the same district after winning the seat on a BJP ticket in the 2017 assembly elections.

He had been representing Padrauna since 2009, first winning it on a BSP ticket in the assembly bypolls that year and then retaining it in the 2012 elections, before switching over to BJP.

Before 2009, he represented the Dalmau assembly seat, first winning it in 1996 and then retaining it in 2002 as a BSP leader. After delimitation, the Dalmau assembly segment in Rae Bareli district was renamed Sareni.

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