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UP assembly elections 2012, Congress announced its seventh list of candidates for Uttar Pradesh assembly elections comprising five candidates, taking the total number of nominees to 358 in the 403-member House. Congress has left 45 seats to Ajit Singh’s RLD with which it has reached alliance last month. The seats for RLD have been given in Singh’s stronghold of Western UP.
The five candidates whose names were announced are Isauli Moid Ahmed (Sadar), Jai Narayan Tewari (Kunda) Rama Shankar Yadav (Robertsganj), Krishna Pratap Singh (Obra) and Rajnarain Singh.
The RLD chife Ajit Singh, who has sewed up an alliance with the Congress, today released a list of 17 candidates for the upcoming Uttar Pradesh assembly election, Party chief Chaudhary Ajit Singh has released the first list of candidates for the assembly election, RLD general secretary and spokesman Anil Dubey said here.
The candidates included sitting MLA Nawab Kokab Hameed who would contest from Baghpat, he said adding UP RLD head Hardev Singh would be the party’s nominee from Eitmadpur, Former minister and MLC Munna Singh Chauhan would contest from Bikapur seat in Faizabad district, the spokesman said.
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