SP declares candidate on Ghaziabad Lok Sabha seat

Ghaziabad: The Samajwadi Party (SP) on Friday declared the name of its candidate on Ghaziabad Lok Sabha seat. Party officials informed that the name announced is one among the 16 candidates declared by the Samajwadi party on various Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh.

As per reports, the list released by the Samajwadi Party, which is contesting the Lok Sabha polls in alliance with the Bahujan Samaj Party of Mayawati, named Senior leader Surendra Kumar alias Munni Sharma as their candidate from Ghaziabad.

Sharma, a native of Muradnagar area is Samajwadi Party's district president from Ghaziabad. The residents of Ghaziabad had been demanding for a local candidate to be elected as member of parliament from the district. With Sharma's name in the list, the other competent political parties might get a tuff competition.

Meanwhile, the Bhartiya Janta Party and Congress party are yet to declare their candidate from Ghaziabad.

The SP-BSP alliance had kept the Ghaziabad Lok Sabha seat for Samajwadi Party.