UP Assembly elections: SP declares names of new candidates

Lucknow: With Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections around the corner, Samajwadi Party state president Shivpal Yadav on Monday declared new candidates for seven Assembly seats for the 2017 polls. While from Amapur seat Rahul Pandey has been given ticket in place of Virendra Solanki, Subhash Pal has been replaced by Anis Mansoori from Bilgram Mallawan seat, a party release issued here said. Also, Jainul Hasan has been given ticket in place of Mayankeshwar Sharan from Tiloi seat, Vimlesh Saroj will be party candidate from Jagdishpur seat in place of Ajit Prasad, it said. Party has also changed candidates declared earlier from Madhavgarh, Kalpi and Khaga and named RP Niranjan, Anup Kumar Singh and Vinod Pasi from there respectively.