Of the 36 candidates in the first two lists announced by the Samajwadi Party-RLD alliance in Uttar Pradesh, 27 are facing criminal cases, with allies justifying giving them tickets on various grounds, including “doing social work under Covid” and work Is. For “backward people”.
As for Hastinapur candidate Yogesh Verma, who is facing more than 30 criminal cases, the Samajwadi Party said, “he has been assessed by the people of Hastinapur and all cases against him are in public interest and political law”. Verma was an MLA from this seat in 2007 and lost the elections from Bulandshahr Lok Sabha seat in 2017 and 2019.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) has mandated parties to publish justification as to why they have given tickets to candidates with criminal cases.
BJP Earlier on Tuesday, it published a list of 25 such candidates out of its first list of 107 candidates, including deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya, and said such candidates had faced cases “due to political rivalry”.
The BJP has also attacked the SP-RLD alliance for giving tickets to several tainted names, including Nahid Hussain of Kairana, who was arrested and jailed.
in announcements published by Samajwadi Party In respect of its 20 other candidates with criminal cases, it has cited similar justifications along the lines of one candidate who “served social service during the COVID period, provided to the poor and backward people”.
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A candidate from Koil seat for Shah Ishaq SP has said that they helped people during the lockdown and pandemic by providing transportation to reach COVID patients with home and essential items.
For Mohd Adil, another candidate from Meerut South, the SP said he works “like distributing blankets in winter” for the upliftment of the underprivileged section and that he has provided oxygen supply and hospital beds and medicines during the Covid-19 pandemic. are provided. By helping poor people.
Regarding his candidate from Atrauli, SP’s Viresh Yadav has told how his father defeated former CM Kalyan Singh and he has been a MLA of the party thrice. “He hails from a very old political family and his father has been a six-time MLA since 1962,” the SP said.
RLD It is also appropriate to give tickets to six candidates with criminal cases out of the seven names announced by the party in the first two lists. RLD’s Jewar candidate Avtar Singh Badhana faces a case in which he says an application for quashing the case is pending before the Allahabad High Court. “He is a mass leader who has raised the issues of farmers, Dalits and OBCs. He is the best person to represent the farmers and the poor,” said the SP
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