Congress declares its Kanpur, Agra mayoral candidates

LUCKNOW: UPCC president Rita Bahuguna Joshi on Tuesday announced the names of Pawan Gupta and Shyam Jarari as the party's official candidate for the posts of mayor of Kanpur and Agra municipal corporations respectively. State Congress spokesperson Virendra Madan said that Congress had already announced the names of Amjad Saleem and Dr Neeraj Bora as mayoral candidates for Bareilly and Lucknow municipal corporations.He said that Surhita Kareem , Nirmala Bilhatiya and Ashok Singh are the party's mayoral candidates for Gorakhpur, Jhansi and Varanasi respectively.
The party has fielded Devendra Kumar and Satya Pandey as mayoral candidates for Meerut and Allahabad municipal corporations, he added.