UP CM Yogi Adityanath will be the BJP candidate from Gorakhpur city. Earlier it was expected that Yogi can be contested from Ayodhya or Mathura. Yogi has been an MP from Gorakhpur in the past and is currently a member of the UP Legislative Council. Along with this, Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya will fight for BJP from Sirathu seat of Prayagraj. Along with this, BJP today released the list of candidates for the first two rounds of the assembly elections to be held in UP. Party leader and Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan released the list.
On this occasion, Pradhan reiterated the work and schemes done by the central and state governments of BJP for the people. He said that the Yogi government has cracked down on goondaraj, corruption and rioters in the last 5 years. Now daughters-in-law in UP can roam at night without fear. Pradhan claimed that once again it would be successful in forming the government in UP, today the candidates for 57 out of 58 seats and 48 out of 55 seats were announced by the BJP. Rest of the seats will be given to the alliance. Also, the party is still considering some seats.
He said that we will field Dalits as candidates on the seats and the entire society will get a chance. Apart from these, the big names who have been given tickets by the BJP, include Mriganka Singh from Kairana, Suresh Rana from Thana Nagar, Tejinder Raina from Shamli, Kapil from Muzaffarnagar. Aggarwal, Firebrand leader Sangeet Som from Sardhana, Amit Agarwal from Meerut Kent, KP Malik from Baraut, Yogesh Dhama from Baghpat, Ajitpal Tyagi from Muradnagar, Atul Garg from Ghaziabad, Dharmesh Tomar from Dhaulana, Pankaj Singh from Noida, Sanjay Singh from Dibai, Meenakshi from Khurja, Anil Parashar from Sandeep Singh Kol from Atrauli, Lashminarayan from Chhata, Meghshyam Singh from Govardhan and Shrikant Sharma from Mathura and Baby Rani Maurya from Agra Rural.
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