LUCKNOW, Feb. 19 -- The Samajwadi Party (SP) on Monday declared its second list of 11 candidates in Uttar Pradesh for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. The list includes the name of sitting BSP MP Afzal Ansari who has been fielded from his Ghazipur seat. He is the elder brother of gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari.

The second SP list, like the previous one, is also PDA (Pichada, Dalit, Alpsankhyak) oriented. It has five OBCs, four Dalit and one Muslim candidates, including two women. There also is one upper caste on the list.

The SP has so far has declared candidates for a total of 27 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh. In its first list of 16 released on January 30, there were five seats that the Congress wanted. Thus both the li...