Lucknow, January 08: Congress today released fourth list of 62 party candidates for next month s seven-phase Assembly election in Uttar Pradesh. However in this list, the party has also changed the candidates in eight seats which were announced by the party in the earlier lists. With this, the party has released the names of candidates in 325 seats out of a total 403. The party would release the last list of candidates after leaving around 40 seats for Rashtriya Lok Dal(RLD) within next couple of days time, Congress leaders said. BSP MLA Nawab Kazim Ali Khan, son of Congress leader Noor Bano has been given ticket from Suar Tanda seat in Rampur. He had recently joined the Congress. While in the remaining two seats of Lucknow district, the party has fielded a youth Gaurab Chouhdury from Sarojninagar and Harshvardhan Shyam from Mohanlalganj Assembly segments. As per the fourth list, Congress has denied ticket to farmer leader V M Singh and now Jogender Singh is the new party candidate from Barkhera seat in Pilibhit. Recently the Allahabad High Court had rejected the bail petition of V M Singh involved in damaging public property over attack on a Gurudwara a couple of months back. The party has changed candidate in Nighasan seat and now Ajay Verma will be the party nominee inplace of Mohan Chand Upreti. Similarly Ramkrishna Bhargav will be the new candidate in Mishrik seat replacing Omprakash Rawat and in Balamau seat Vishambhar Dayal has been replaced by R A Prasad. In Doomariaganj seat, Sudhir Kishan has been made the new candidate and replaced Kazi Suhail Ahmed. In Mahadeva seat, Gaurishanker Kanaujiya is now the party candidate as Chandra Prakash has been shown the doors. Suyasgnabu Tripathi will be the party candidate from Pathardev seat in place of Niyaz Ahmed Khan, while in Nizamabad assembly segment Dr Hambala Yadav has been replaced by Poornmasi Prajapati.
—-Agencies