New Delhi: Ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, Samajwadi Party (SP) supremo and former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, Akhilesh Yadav, offered 17 Lok Sabha seats to Congress in Uttar Pradesh. 

List of 17 Lok Sabha seats offered to Congress by SP in UP 

1. Raebareli
2. Amethi
3. Kanpur
4. Fatehpur Sikri 
5. Bansgaon 
6. Saharanpur
7. Prayagraj
8. Maharajganj 
9. Banaras
10. Amroha
11. Jhansi
12. Bulandshahr
13. Gaziabad
14. Mathura
15. Hathras
16. Barabanki
17. Deoria

Samajwadi Party candidate list in UP

Samajwadi Party on Monday announced 11 more candidates for Lok Sabha elections.

Muzaffarnagar: Harendra Malik

Ghazipur: Gangster-politician Mukhtar Ansari's brother Afzal Ansari

Shahjahanpur: Rajesh Kashyap

Hardoi: Usha Verma

Misrikh: Rampal Rajvanshi

Mohanlalganj: RK Chaudhary

Pratapgarh: SP Singh Baghel

Bahraich: Ramesh Gautam

Gonda: Shreya Verma

Chandauli: Virendra Singh

Amla: Neeraj

Sambhal: Shafiqur Rahman Barq

Firozabad: Akshay Yadav

Mainpuri: Dimple Yadav

Eta: Devesh Shakya

Budaun: Dharmendra Yadav

Khiri: Utkarsh Verma

Dhaurahra: Anand Bhadauria

Unnao: Anu Tandon

Lucknow: Ravidas Mehrotra 

Farukhabad: Naval Kishore Shakya 

Akbarpur: Rajaram Pal

Banda: Shivshankar Singh Patel 

Faizabad: Avdesh Prasad 

Ambedkar Nagar: Lalji verma 

Basti: Ram Prasad Choudhary 

Gorakhpur: Kajal Nishad 

Swami Prasad Maurya announces new political party 

In the latest, Swami Prasad Maurya announced a new political party on Sunday, February 19, as he quit the Samajwadi Party. This comes days after Swami Prasad Maurya resigned from the national general secretary post of the Samajwadi Party.  

Swami Prasad Maurya has named his new party as ‘Rashtriya Shoshit Samaj Party’ and will address party's rally at New Delhi's Talkatora Stadium on February 22. 

Swami Prasad Maurya had taken the decision to quit the party over delay in reply by party chief Akhilesh Yadav, Swami Prasad Marya had resigned from the general secretary post on February 13, claiming that now its on the party chief to decide. Maurya had then claimed that he would continue working to strengthen Samajwadi Party without any post.