SP finalises faces from Noida and Dadri, list likely today

Noida: While a formal announcement is likely only on Sunday, the Samajwadi Party-RLD alliance has finalised its candidates from the Noida and Dadri seats.
SP state spokesperson Rajkumar Bhati is set to be officially announced as the candidate from Dadri while businessman and two-time SP candidate from Noida Sunil Chaudhary will likely be fielded from Noida again.
A former journalist and professor at Mihir Bhoj degree college, Bhati is the writer of the song “Akhilesh aa rahe hain”, which is the main anthem for the Samajwadi Party in their campaign for the UP assembly polls.Talking to TOI, SP district president Bir Singh Yadav said, “Rajkumar Bhati got the party symbol for fighting polls on Friday evening. Sunil Chaudhary is getting the symbol too.”
Bhati has played an active role in several farmer agitations. Chaudhary, meanwhile, had been taken into custody during the recent farmers’ agitation on abadi land outside the Noida Authority. Chaudhary told TOI that his campaign will focus on raising farmers’ issues, resolving the pending registries of homebuyers and improving Ganga water access. Chaudhary said getting Noida “freehold” status for land holdings in Noida, which are leasehold, was another poll plank of the SP. “Projects like the elevated road, metro, underpasses, etc were conceived during the Akhilesh Yadav government. Noida does not need a VVIP MLA, it does not need a “raja” but a “sewak.” If the public gives me a chance, we will try to ensure that the kacchi colonies get regularised,” he said, adding he would also pitch for RWAs being allowed to keep their own security personnel. “There is goondagardi (hooliganism) by some builders in Noida,” he added.