Final Offer Made To Congress, Samajwadi Party Names Candidates For 5 Seats

Akhilesh Yadav's Samajwadi Party has released its third list of five seats for the Lok Sabha elections amid tussle with the Congress over the issue. One of the five candidates has been fielded from Varanasi, the seat of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The other four are Kairana, Badayun, Bareilly and Hamirpur. This takes the total number of candidates announced by the party to 32 -- earlier they announced 16 and 11 candidates in two tranches.