The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) announced its final list of candidates for 101 Assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh on Sunday.
With this, the party has released a list of 401 candidates. Candidates on the remaining two seats in Sonebhadra will be decided after a decision is made as to whether they are general or reserved for Scheduled Tribes, the party said.
According to BSP chief Mayawati, BSP has given 87 tickets to Dalits, 97 to Muslims and 106 to OBCs. Muslims constitute nearly 20 percent of the voters in UP and had, by and large, supported the SP in the 2012 elections.
However, this time they are looking for clear signals from the Samajwadi Party (SP), which has been mired in a power struggle between Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and his father, Mulayam Singh Yadav.
After the SP candidates hit the ground, the BSP might get the first-mover advantage and benefit from the confusion in the SP camp.
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