Team News Riveting
Lucknow, January 28
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today released a list of 91 candidates for the ensuing Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, dropping 17 sitting MLAs.
It retained the sitting legislator in key constituency Ayodhya, Ved Prakash Gupta while dropped Co-Operative Affairs Minister Mukut Bihari Verma. His son Gaurav Verma has been fielded from his Kaiserganj seat in Bahraich.
However, the party has repeated several ministers including Siddharth Nath Singh from Allahabad West and Nand Kumar Gupta ‘Nandi’ from Allahabad South.
The BJP has also fielded Chief Minister Adityanath’s media adviser Shalabh Mani Tripathi from Deoria.
With this, the BJP has announced the names of 295 candidates for the 403-member Assembly The party has also given tickets to nine women candidates in the list released on Friday, including Sindhuja Mishra (Kunda), Neelam Karwariya (Meja), Aarti Kol (Karaon), Aarti Tiwari (Goshainganj), Saroj Sonkar (Balha), Anupama Jaiswal (Bahraich), Neelam Sonkar (lalganj), Manju Sonkar (Mehnagar) and Sunita Parishit Singh (Zamania).
Party’s Central Election Committee (CEC) has put its stamp on the final list and the names will be announced over the next few days.
