Samajwadi Party announces names of 16 candidates for Lok Sabha polls

The Samajwadi Party has announced its list of candidates for 16 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh. This includes Dimple Yadav, the wife of party chief Akhilesh Yadav, who will contest from the Mainpuri seat.

The party's candidate list was released amid ongoing seat sharing discussions with the Congress. In the first list of Samajwadi Party, there are 11 OBCs, one Muslim, one Dalit, one Thakur, one Tandon, and one Khatri candidate. The 11 OBC candidates include four Kurmi, three Yadav, two Shakya, one Nishad, and one Pal.