The Congress has released names of 28 candidates for Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections out of which 10 are women. The party has fielded Ashish Shukla from Amethi against Sanjay Singh of the BJP.The party has changed tickets from Gaura replacing Satendra Dubey with Ram Pratap Singh, a former MLA, and in Mankapur Santosh Kumari has been given ticket in place of Kamla Sisodia. In Padrauna, where the party witnessed high profile exit of RPN, Singh, a former minister who switched to the BJP ahead of polls, the Congress has fielded Mohd Jahriddin.The ten women who have been given ticket include Reena Devi Bind from Handia, Madhvi Rai from Meja, Rinki Patel from Karchhana, Nishat Fatima from Katehri, Punam Azad from Bansgaon, Kiran Bharti from Balha, Sonia Shukla from Chill Par and Priyanka Yadav from Ghosi.
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