Lucknow, Jan 27 : The Samajwadi Party Today  released a list of 56 candidates for the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections. Dara Singh Chauhan, who resigned from the Yogi Adityanath cabinet and joined the SP, has been fielded from Ghosi in Mau district. Former Ministers Arvind Singh ‘Gope’ has been given ticket from Dariyabad in Barabanki district and Om Prakash Singh from Zamania in Ghazipur district. Veteran SP leader and Leader of the Opposition in UP Assembly Ram Govind Chaudhary will contest from Bansdih in Ballia district. Three-time MP Tufani Saroj has been fielded from Kerakat in Jaunpur district. The party has repeated nine sitting MLAs. Sitting MLA Dharmaraj Singh Yadav ‘Suresh Yadav’ has been fielded from Barabanki, Ashutosh Upadhyaya from Bhatpar Rani (Deoria), Sangram Singh Yadav from Atrauliya, Nafees Ahmad from Gopalpur in Azamgarh, Durga Prasad Yadav from Azamgarh, Alambadi from Nizamabad (all in Azamgarh district), Shailendra Yadav Lalai from Shahganj (Jaunpur), Lucky Yadav from Malhani (Faizabad) and Virendra Yadav from Jungipur (Ghazipur). The party has named eight Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) turncoats including two rebel MLAs Lalji Verma and Ramachal Rajbhar. While Verma has been given ticket from Katehari, Rajbhar will contest from Akbarpur. Both the seats are in Ambedkar Nagar district. The other BSP turncoats fielded by the SP include Daud Ahmad from Mohammadi (Lakhimpur), Tribhuvan Dutt from Alapur, Rakesh Pandey from Jalalpur (both in Ambedkar Nagar district), Sayeeda Khatoon from Domariyaganj (Siddharth Nagar), Vinay Tiwari from Chillupar (Gorakhpur) and Ramakant Yadav from Phoolpur Pawai (Azamgarh). The party has given ticket to Varun Chaudhary, son of former Minister Yashpal Chaudhary, from Dhaurahra in Lakhimpur district. Son of veteran SP leader Beni Prasad Verma, Rakesh Verma, has been fielded from Kursi in Barabanki district. Among other candidates, the party has named Padamraj Singh Pammu from Sawaijpur, Rambali Verma from Balamau (both in Hardoi district), Mohammad Naeem Gujjar from Tiloi (Amethi), Girijesh from Babaganj (Pratapgarh), Puja Pal from Chayal (Kaushambi), Murtaza Siddiqui from Phoolpur (Allahabad), Fareed Mehfooz Kidwai from Ramnagar (Barabanki), Abhay Singh from Gosaiganj (Faizabad), K.K. Ojha from Mahsi (Bahraich), Dr S.P. Yadav from Gaisadi and Jagram Paswan from Balrampur. The party has fielded Vijay Kumar from Kapilvastu, veteran leader Mata Prasad Pandey from Itwa (both in Siddharth Nagar district), Kajal Nishad from Campierganj, Amrendra Nishad from Pipraich, Vijay Bahadur from Gorakhpur (Rural), Yashpal Rawat from Sahjanwa, Roopwati from Khajani, Dr Sanjay Kumar from Bansgaon (all in Gorakhpur district), Brahma Shankar Tripathi from Pathardewa, Ghazala from Rampur Karkhana (both in Deoria district), Kamlakant Rajbhar from Didarganj and Bechai Saroj from Lalganj (both in Azamgarh district). In Ballia district, the party has fielded Ziyauddin Rizvi from Sikanderpur and Sangram Singh from Phephna. Leader of the Opposition in UP Assembly Ram Govind Chaudhary has been fielded from Bansdih, Baba Dubey from Badlapur (Jaunpur), Prabhunath Singh from Sakaldiha (Chandauli), Zahid Beg from Bhadohi, Avinash Kushwaha from Robertsganj, Sunil Singh Gaur from Obra and Vijay Singh Gaur from Duddhi (all in Sonbhadra district).(UNI)