The Samajwadi Party (SP) has announced candidates for eight seats in the upcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly bypolls. With two new candidates declared, the total candidate count is eight. The bypolls will involve nine seats,

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav has said that all INDIA bloc candidates will contest the upcoming bypolls in Uttar Pradesh on his party's election symbol, ‘cycle.’The Lok Sabha MP from Kannauj mentioned that the alliance's decision was driven by the goal of winning rather than any seat-sharing arrangement.

This comes a day after Yadav announced that INDIA bloc candidates will contest all nine seats in the upcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly bypolls on his party's election symbol 'cycle

INDIA bloc candidates will contest all nine seats in the upcoming bypolls on his party's election symbol 'cycle', Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav announced on Wednesday.

Sources said political experts had predicted that the Congress wouldn't be able to win Ghaziabad Sadar and Khair, the two seats which the BJP won earlier, and the party wasn't keen to contest the bypolls after not getting their desired seats.

The Congress and the Samajwadis had contested the April-June general election in alliance across the state’s 80 parliamentary seats. While the Congress contested 17 seats and won 6, the Samajwadis con

Congress originally demanded five of 10 assembly seats. The Samajwadi Party, however, last week said the Congress had agreed to contest on two seats, Ghaziabad and Khair (Aligarh), leaving the rest to the SP.

Speaking about the UP Bypolls, Akhilesh Yadav asserted that the coming election will be fought for the protection of the country's Constitution, peace, and the honour of "Pichchde (backwards), Dalit and Alpsankhyak (Minorities).

Samajwadi chief Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday said that all INDIA bloc candidates will fight on cycle symbol in UP Bypolls. Taking to X, Yadav wrote, “It is not about seats but about winning. Under this strategy,