LUCKNOW : The Samajwadi Party is grappling with a piquant situation over ticket distribution changing its candidates repeatedly leading to confusion and chaos which was witnessed in Moradabad and Rampur on Wednesday.Meanwhile, the party, leading the INDI Alliance in the state, changed its Gautam Budh Nagar candidate yet again on Thursday.In a flip flop, the SP had announced the name of Dr Mahendra Nagar as party candidate from Gautam Budh Nagar initially. However, his candidature was rejected by the party cadre calling him an outsider. Dr Nagar had joined the Samajwadi Party, leaving Congress just two years ago.Succumbing to the pressure of Gautam Budh Nagar leaders, the SP leadership struck down the ticket of Dr Nagar and gave it to a youth leader Rahul Awana. As per the SP insiders, Awana’s ticket irked the partymen further and he was replaced again by Dr Nagar.Meanwhile, the goof-up that ended up with double candidates — Dr ST Hasan and Ruchi Veera in Moradabad and Asim Raja and Maulana Mohibullah Nadwi in Rampur — filing nomination on Wednesday left the party red-faced.However, Hasan, the sitting SP MP from Moradabad attributed it to some compulsion of the SP chief that his candidature was cancelled at the last moment leading to huge embarrassment.Hasan, who had filed his papers on Tuesday, said that neither would he campaign for the party in Moradabad nor would he contest the polls.“In Rampur, as the party could not announce a candidate suggested by Azam Khan, Ruchi Veera has been made the candidate from Moradabad at his behest,” claimed the outgoing SP MP.
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