Samajwadi Party fields transgender candidate for Ayodhya mayoral post

SP spokesperson and former UP minister Rajendra Chaudhary said the list released so far has given representation to all the sections of society

Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party (SP) has fielded a transgender, Gulshan Bindu, as its official mayoral candidate from Ayodhya municipal corporation seat in the forthcoming Uttar Pradesh urban local bodies elections.

The party this evening released its first list of seven mayoral candidates for the total 16 municipal corporation seats in UP. SP has also fielded two Muslim candidates – Yusuf Ansari and Mujahir Kidwai – from the Moradabad and Aligarh seats, respectively.

Further, the party announced the candidature of Deepu Manethia Valmiki from Meerut, I S Tomar from Bareilly, Rahul Saxena from Jhansi and Rahul Gupta from Gorakhpur mayoral seat.

SP spokesperson and