Lucknow, Oct. 3 -- The Samajwadi Party on Saturday replaced two of its candidates for the biennial Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council elections, dropping the names of two recent entrants and fielding new candidates for the Agra and Gorakhpur-Faizabad constituencies.
SP president Akhilesh Yadav announced the changes at the party's state headquarters in Lucknow.
The party has fielded Dr Akash Agarwal from the Agra Graduate constituency and Sanjayan Tripathi from the Gorakhpur-Faizabad Teacher constituency.
The SP had earlier named Shashank Yadav from Agra and Kamlesh Yadav from Gorakhpur-Faizabad.
Sanjayan Tripathi had earlier sought a BJP ticket from the Gorakhpur-Faizabad seat. However, the BJP fielded sitting MLC Dhruv Kumar Tripathi. F...