SP announces mayoral candidate from Lucknow

Samajwadi Party today announced socialist leader Acharya Narendra Dev's grandson's wife Meera Vardhan as party's mayoral candidate from the state capital.
Besides her, party also declared Rahul Chaturvedi from Agra and Raj Narain Gupta from Firozabad as it's mayoral candidate.
"Meera Vardhan, wife of Narendra Dev's grand son Yashovardhan, has been declared as the SP mayoral candidate from Lucknow," SP spokesman Rajendra Chowhdury said.
Earlier, in the first list released on Sunday party had declared its first list of mayoral candidates for seven nagar nigam including transgender Gulshan Bindu from Ayodhya.
The candidates declared were Deepu Marethia Valmiki- Meerut, Dr I S Tomar Bareilly, Yusuf Ansari-Moradabad, Muzahir Kidwai-Aligarh, Rahul Saxena-Jhansi and Rahul Gupta from Gorakhpur.

There are total 16 nagar nigams in Uttar Pradesh.

Civic polls in Uttar Pradesh will be held in three phases on November 22, 26 and 29, setting the stage for a virtual referendum on the Yogi Adityanath government in the state.
Votes for the 16 nagar nigam, 198 nagar palika parishad and 438 nagar panchyats will be counted on December 1.
Over 3.32 crore people will be eligible to vote in the polls to be conducted in 36,269 polling booths in 11,389 polling stations.
The polls, being fought for the first time on party lines, will be a litmus test for the ruling BJP which stormed to power in the Assembly elections with a massive mandate earlier this year.