No Shivpal in Samajwadi Party’s star campaigner list

The list, dated January 21, was sent by SP national general secretary Ram Gopal Yadav to the EC. It included the names of Mulayam, Akhilesh Yadav, Kiranmay Nanda, Azam Khan, Rajya Sabha members Ram Gopal and Naresh Agarwal, SP’s Maharashtra leader Abu Asim Azmi and state presidents of SP Yuvjan Sabha and Mulayam Singh Yadav Youth Brigade.

Apart from Mulayam, the list includes four other Lok Sabha MPs — Dimple Yadav (Kannauj), Dharmendra Yadav (Badaun), Akshay Yadav (Firozabad) and Tej Pratap Yadav (Mainpuri). Further, Rajya Sabha MPs Jaya Bachchan, Surendra Singh Nagar, Javed Ali Khan and Neeraj Shekhar have made it to the list. MLC Ashu Malik, a Mulayam loyalist from western UP, has not been included in the list.