Lucknow: The Samajwadi Get together (SP) has fielded Anuradha Chauhan, 45, as its candidate in the Suar Tanda (Rampur) meeting by-poll. Chauhan’s nomination, on the final minute, got here as a shock because the SP candidate is neither a household member nor any shut affiliate of the SP senior chief and former Rampur MP-MLA Azam Khan. Anuradha is additionally not a lot identified outdoors Suar, inside or outdoors even Samajwadi Get together.
If she wins, she would be the first lady MLA from Suar seat.
“However my choice because the candidate is due to Azam Khan saheb and Akhilesh ji (SP nationwide president). Although it is my first meeting election, I’ll win as I’ve been very energetic in the world since 2010”, stated Anuradha Chauhan, who will likely be defending the seat from the SP facet.
Thursday was the final day for submitting of nomination and Could 10 is the polling date.
Although the ruling Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP) is not contesting the by-polls, it’s ally Apna Dal (S) has fielded Shafiq Ahmed, district normal secretary, of Apan Dal (S).
Anuradha Chauhan was the village head of Savakthal village in Suar, Rampur from 2010-15 and is presently Zila Panchayat member, ward quantity 9, Rampur. She was in Bahujan Samaj Get together (BSP) when she received the Zila Panchayat membership election, however quickly after joined the SP.
“I’m in the SP for the previous two years”, she stated.
By-poll on the seat is going down following the disqualification of Abdullah Azam Khan who received the seat in 2022 UP meeting elections because the SP candidate. The son of Azam Khan, Abdullah was disqualified on February 16 this 12 months from the Uttar Pradesh meeting days after a court docket sentenced him to 2 years’ imprisonment in a 15-year-old case for blocking a street in Chhajlet space of Moradabad district.
Virendra Goel, Rampur district president of Samajwadi Get together confirmed Anuradha’s nomination because the SP candidate. “She filed the nomination after instructions from the SP state headquaters in Lucknow”, he stated.
Anuradha stated that when she had received the gram pradhan elections in 2010, she was awarded by the election fee for being a extremely certified gram pradhan. “I’ve BA and LLB levels and I’m an advocate”, she stated.