UP Polls: BJP Releases First List Of Candidates; 60Pc Seats Given To Backward Classes, Women
Mumbai: The BJP on Saturday released its first list of 107 candidates for the first and second phases of the upcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, which are scheduled to be held on February 10 and 14.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will contest from the Gorakhpur assembly constituency. Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya will contest from Sirathu in the Prayagraj district. Also Read: CM Yogi Adityanath Made UP A Riot-Free State: Dharmendra Pradhan
The list was released by Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and BJP National General Secretary Arun Singh at a press conference in New Delhi. Recently, several party leaders resigned from their posts alleging the Uttar Pradesh government’s apathetic attitude towards backward classes. Also Read: Won’t Let Any More BJP MLAs, Ministers Join SP, Says Akhilesh Yadav
To maintain the caste arithmetic balance and gain the appeal of voters, the Bharatiya Janata Party has fielded women in 10 seats, OBC candidates in 44 seats and Scheduled Caste (SC) candidates in 19 seats, for a total of 60 seats. is on. is the percentage. BJP has 83 sitting MLAs in the list released today and in the list of 107 candidates released today, a total of 21 people are new candidates. Also Read: Sidhu To Contest From Amritsar East, Channi From Chamkaur Sahib In Punjab Polls
Former Uttarakhand Governor Baby Rani Maurya will contest from the Agra Rural seat. Defense Minister Rajnath Singh’s son Pankaj Singh will again contest from Noida seat. Tejendra Singh Nirwal will be contesting from Shamli seat, Umesh Malik will be from Budhana, Sapna Kashyap from Charthawal, Pramod Utwal from Purqazi (SC), Kapidev Aggarwal from Muzaffar Nagar, Vikram Saini from Khatauli will be contesting in the poll-bound state.
Prashant Gurjar from Meerapur, Manendra Pal Singh from Siwalkhas, Sangeet Som from Sardhana, Dinesh Khatik from Hastinapur (SC), Satyavir Tyagi from Kithore, Amit Aggarwal from Meerut Cantt, Sahendra Singh Ramala from Chharprauli, Krishnapal Singh (KP Malik) from Baraut, Yogesh Dhama from Baghpat, Nandkishor Gurjar from Loni, Ajit Pal Tyagi from Muradnagar, Sunil Sharma from Sahibabad and Atul Garg from Ghaziabad will also be contesting in the poll bound state.
Several other candidates will contest in the electoral state. The Election Commission said that voting will begin from February 10 in seven phases for 403 assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh.
In Uttar Pradesh, polling will be held in seven phases on 10, 14, 20, 23, 27 and March 3 and 7. The counting of votes will take place on March 10.
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