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The first list of Aam Admi Party (AAP) candidates for 2022 assembly polls has doctors, engineers, MBA graduates and PhD scholars too.
The first list of 150 candidates for the 403 seat UP assembly was released Sunday by Sanjay Singh, in charge of the election in Uttar Pradesh.
Singh while releasing the list at party office said 8 candidates have done MBA, 38 are post graduates, 4 doctors, 8 are Ph D holders, 7 engineers, 8 are B.Ed, 39 graduates, and 6 diploma holders. While the case equation has 55 OBCs, 31 schedule caste, 14 Muslims, 6 Kayastha, 36 Brahmans.
On the Lucknow Central seat Nadeem Ashraf Jaisee will contest election, on Lucknow East seat Alok Singh, on Lucknow North Amit Srivastava, on Lucknow West seat Rajiv Bakshi, on Mohanlalganj seat Suraj Kumar, and on Sarojini Nagar seat Rohit Srivastav.
AAP has been making efforts in the past one year to establish party in the state and had been working to contest elections too. The declaration of list of candidates reaffirms the party’s agenda to participate in the state assembly once again.
Recently, Delhi chief minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) convener Arvind Kejriwal has announced honorarium of one thousand rupee to women above 18-years if the party is voted to power in Uttar Pradesh in a rally in Lucknow’s Smriti Upwan.
Kejriwal had said, “You give me one chance. If I fail to fulfil promise I will not come again asking for votes. If you want free schools, good hospitals then vote to Kejriwal and if you want expensive electricity and poor schools then vote to BJP. Vote to Kejriwal for jobs.”
After coming to power for the second term in Delhi, Kejriwal is hoping to expand party’s base. The AAP has made similar promises in Punjab, Uttarakhand and Goa that are also headed for Assembly polls this year.
In the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) registered a victory after it bagged 312 Assembly seats. The party secured a 39.67 per cent vote share. The Samajwadi Party bagged 47 seats, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) won 19, while the Congress managed to win only seven seats.
