The Congress, on January 20, declared its second list of 41 candidates — including 16 women candidates — for the upcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls.
Last week, the Congress revealed its first list of 125 candidates — with 50 women nominees.
Here's the second list of candidates shared by IANS:
| Sr No | Constituency Name and Number | Candidate Name |
| 1 | 3 SaharanpurNagar | Smt Sukhwinder Kaur |
| 2 | 8 Kairana | Haji Akhlaq |
| 3 | 9 ThanaBhawan | Satya Sayyam Saini |
| 4 | 10 Shamli | Mohd Ayub Jang |
| 5 | 11 Budhana | Devendra Kashyap |
| 6 | 12 Charthawal | Smt Dr Yasmeen Rana |
| 7 | 13 Purqazi-SC | Deepak Kumar |
| 8 | 14 MuzaffarNagar | Subodh Sharma |
| 9 | 15 Khatauli | Gaurav Bhati |
| 10 | 16 Meerapur | Maulana Jameel Qasmi |
| 11 | 26 Thakurdwarra | Smt Salma Agha Ansari |
| 12 | 30 Bilari | Smt Kalpana Singh |
| 13 | 31 Chandausi-SC | Smt Mithlesh |
| 14 | 43 Siwalkhas | Jagdish Sharma |
| 15 | 44 Sardhana | Syed Rianuddin |
| 16 | 47 Meerut Cantt | Avanish Kajala |
| 17 | 48 Meerut | Ranjan Sharma |
| 18 | 49 Meerut | South Nafees Saifi |
| 19 | 51 Baraut | Rahul Kashyap |
| 20 | 52 Baghpat | Anil Dev Tyagi |
| 21 | 55 Sahibabad | Smt Sangeeta Tyagi |
| 22 | 57 Modi Nagar | Smt Neeraj Kumari Prajapati |
| 23 | 58 Dholana | Arvind Sharma |
| 24 | 59 Hapur – SC | Smt Bhawna Valmiki |
| 25 | 64 Sikandrabad | Saleem Akhtar |
| 26 | 65 Bulandshahar | Sushil Chaudhary |
| 27 | 66 Syana | Ms Poonam Pandit |
| 28 | 67 Anupshahr | Chaudhary Gajendra |
| 29 | 68 Debai | Smt Sunita Sharma |
| 30 | 69 Shikarpur | Ziyaur Rehman |
| 31 | 70 Khurja – SC | Tukki Mal Khatik |
| 32 | 71 Khair – SC | Smt Monika Suryawanshi |
| 33 | 74 Chharra | Akhilesh Sharma |
| 34 | 77 Iglas – SC | Smt Preeti Dhangar |
| 35 | 81 Chhata | Smt Poonam Devi |
| 36 | 82 Mant | Smt Suman Chaudhary |
| 37 | 87 AgraCantt – SC | Sikander Valmiki |
| 38 | 91 FatehpurSikri | Heman |
| 39 | 121 Nawabganj | Smt Usha Gangwar |
| 40 | 131 Katra | Munna Singh |
| 41 | 281 Akbarpur | Smt Priyanka Jaiswal |
The first list of candidates was announced by Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, the Congress general secretary in-charge of UP, during a press conference on January 13.
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The Congress, in its first list, featured a few other women candidates from varied backgrounds. They include Ritu Singh, a former Samajwadi Party (SP) member who protested against being a victim of poll violence, and Sadaf Jafar, a former state unit spokesperson of the Congress who was arrested during the anti- Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protests in 2019, and Poonam Pandey, an ASHA (Accredited Social Health Activist) worker from Shahjahanpur. Mother of the 2017 gang rape victim, a 17-year-old girl in Unnao district is also among the 50 candidates.
The common thread linking these three women is that they are all first-time contestants and that they all stood up for issues close to them.
In the run-up to the state election in Uttar Pradesh, Vadra had announced that her party would set aside 40 percent of seats for women candidates, which means fielding them from 160 out of a total 403 constituencies.
Experts say that it is a strategic move by the Congress, which has been out of power in the state for three decades, but add that it is unlikely to lead to any drastic changes in its electoral fortune.
This year's Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh will be held in seven phases between February 10 and March 7 and results will be out on March 10.
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