Uttar Pradesh : CM Yogi will contest from Gorakhpur city, BJP released the first list of candidates
UP Assembly Elections 2022: Uttar Pradesh’s ruling party BJP has released its first list of candidates for the assembly elections. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has been made a candidate from Gorakhpur Urban seat. Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and party general secretary Arun Singh announced this in a press conference at the party headquarters in New Delhi. The party has fielded Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya as its candidate from Sirathu assembly seat.
The party has released the list of candidates for the first and second phase of elections today, but in Gorakhpur, elections are to be held in the sixth phase on March 3. Elections are also to be held in Sirathu in the fifth phase. In the list, again Pankaj Singh has been nominated from Noida. He is the son of Union Minister Rajnath Singh.
BJP announced 107 candidates for the UP elections
BJP has announced the names of a total of 107 candidates in this list. Out of these 83 seats were won by BJP in 2017. Out of these 83, 63 sitting MLAs have been given tickets again, while faces have been changed in 20 seats. BJP has put new faces on him.
Kapil Dev Agarwal from Muzaffarnagar
Sangeet Som from Sardana
Shamli to Tajendra Singh Nirwal
Umesh Malik from Budhana
Sapna Kashyap from Charthaval
Pramod Otwal to Poornaji
Khatauli to Vikram Saini
Kamaldat Sharma from Meerut
Amit Agarwal from Meerut Cantt
Meerut South to Somender Tomar
Satyaveer Tyagi from Kithor
Chhaprauli to Sahendra Singh Ramala
Dinesh Khatik to Hastinapur
KP Singh Malik from Barot
Baghpat to Yogesh
Dhamaloni to Nandkishore Gurjar
Muradnagar to Ajit Pal Tyagi
Sunil Sharma from Sahibabad
Meerapur to Prashant Gurjar
Manendra Pal Singh from Siwalkhas
Fatehpur Sikri to Chaudhary Babulal
Fatehabad to Chhotelal Verma
Brijesh Singh Rawat from Deoband
Dr. Yashwant from Nagina
Jagpal Singh to Saharanpur
Saharanpur Nagar to Rajeev Gumber
भारतीय जनता पार्टी की केंद्रीय चुनाव समिति की बैठक में उत्तर प्रदेश विधानसभा चुनाव-2022 के लिए निम्नलिखित प्रत्याशियों के नामों पर अपनी स्वीकृति दी गई है। (1/2) pic.twitter.com/sFcQQZfiMp
— BJP (@BJP4India) January 15, 2022
भारतीय जनता पार्टी की केंद्रीय चुनाव समिति की बैठक में उत्तर प्रदेश विधानसभा चुनाव-2022 के लिए निम्नलिखित प्रत्याशियों के नामों पर अपनी स्वीकृति दी गई है। (2/2) pic.twitter.com/0ZV4gxvNRl
— BJP (@BJP4India) January 15, 2022
Let us tell you that elections for the 403-member Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly are to be held in seven phases. Polling for the first phase will be held on February 10, while in the second phase on February 14, in the third phase on February 20. Voting will be held in the fourth phase on February 23, in the fifth phase on February 27, in the sixth phase on March 3 and in the seventh phase on March 7. Counting of votes will take place on March 10.
