"SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav has announced Firoz Aftab as the party candidate for Saharanpur Lok Sabha constituency," SP national general secretary Ram Gopal Yadav said in a statement issued here.
He said the party has replaced Anuradha Chaudhary with Amir Alam in Bijnor. Once considered a close confidant of the RLD chief, Chaudhary had joined the SP last year.
Panchayati Raj Minister Balram Yadav, who was given a ticket from Azamgarh, has been replaced by Hawaldar Singh.
Yadav had expressed his inability to contest the polls. Moreover, there was a demand from local workers that Mulayam's younger son Prateek Yadav should contest from Azamgarh.
In Aligarh, Zafar Alam has been named in place of Kajal Sharma.