LUCKNOW: Apna Dal sitting MLA from Duddhi, who switched to the BSP two days earlier, has been declared the party’s candidate from the reserved seat in Sonbhadra.
Hariram Chero had defeated the BSP candidate in the seat reserved for Schedule Tribe by a slim margin of 1,085 votes in 2017.
Another Apna Dal member Anand Kumar Dubey has been declared BSP’s candidate from Madiaon.
In the list of seven candidates for phase seven which BSP released on Wednesday, it has also named Salim Khan as its candidate from Jaunpur, Shailendra Yadav from Malhani, Irshad Ahmed from Mughal Sarai, Jayashyam Tripathi from Sakaldeeha and Subhash Kharwar from Obra.