Lucknow: The Left will field 26 candidates in Uttar Pradesh, including against Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav in Mainpuri and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) nominee from Aonla Maneka Gandhi, in the coming Lok Sabha elections.
"The CPI (Communist Party of India) will be fielding nine candidates from Ghosi, Lalganj, Ghazipur, Khalilabad, Banda, Aonla, Mainpuri, Muzzafarnagar and Meerut. The CPM (Communist Party of India-Marxist) will field its candidates from Azamgarh and Firozabad," senior CPI leader Atul Kumar Anjan said on Thursday in Lucknow.
Apart from this, the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) will be fielding 11 candidates in the state, while the Republican Socialist Party and the All India Forward Bloc will be putting up two candidates each, Anjan, party's candidate from Ghosi, said.
Asked whether the front will support other parties in the state from where it is not contesting, Anjan said, "As far as extending support to any party is concerned, it is yet to be decided."
He said CPI General Secretary AB Bardhan will be launching party's election campaign in Uttar Pradesh from Ghosi on March 28.
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