The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) has released the list of 41 candidates for the legislative assembly elections in Haryana.

The party had said it would contest alone in all 90 seats, having called off its alliance with Dushyant Chautala’s Jannayak Janata Party after disagreement over seat-sharing.

Two women candidates have figured out in the list in which 12 candidates have been named from the reserved constituencies.

The two women — Shakuntala Bhatti and Sunita Dhull — have been fielded from Shahbad (SC) and Pundri segments, respectively, according to the list released by BSP’s state unit president Prakash Bharti.

Haryana has the strength of 90 seats out of which 17 are reserved for SCs and none for STs. There are 1.82 crore registered voters in the state out of which 1.07 lakh are service voters.

The Election Commission of India (ECI) has slated the single-phase voting for the 90-member Haryana Assembly elections on October 21 and the counting of votes is scheduled on October 24.

BSP was the first party to have declared candidates for by-poll seats in Uttar Pradesh after which the BSP Chief shifted base to Delhi to focus on assembly polls in Haryana and Maharashtra.

Meanwhile, amid all this political drama, a case of power theft has been registered against Farman Ali, the son of Bahujan Samaj Party’s (BSP) Uttar Pradesh President and Rajya Sabha MP Munquad Ali.

The team led by the Power Department’s Vigilance Inspector Bharat Kumar Rathi and Executive Engineer Dhirendra Kumar raided the college on Meerut-Garh road and found an illegal connection drawing 15 KV directly from the transmission line.

Farman Ali is the chairman of the college and a case under section 135 of the Electricity Act was lodged against him at the anti-power theft police station.