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States » NorthPosted at: Nov 9 2020 1:34PM


BJP announces nine candidates for UP legislative council biennial polls

Lucknow, Nov 9 (UNI) Ruling BJP in Uttar Pradesh on Monday announced nine candidates, five of graduate and four of teachers constituencies, for the 11 seats from the graduate and teachers constituencies to the Uttar Pradesh legislative council where polling is scheduled for December 1.
BJP has left two seats of teachers constituencies and is likely to support some other candidates.
The elections were delayed by 6 months due to the COVID pandemic as these seats fell vacant on May 6 last after the end of the tenure of 5 graduate seat members and 6 teachers constituency members.

BJP sources here said that the candidates are Er. Avith Kumar Singh( Lucknow- Graduate), Kedarnath Singh ( Varanasi- Graduate), Manvendra Pratap Singh ( Agra- graduate), Dinesh Kumar Goel( Meerut- graduate), and Dr Yogesh Dutt Sharma( Allahabad-Jhansi graduate).
The other four BJP candidates of the teachers constituencies are Umesh Dwivedi( Lucknow), Dinesh Chandra Vasisth( Agra), Shrichand Sharma( Meerut) and Dr Hari Singh Dillon( Bareilly-Moradabad).
UP BJP vice- president Vijay Bahadur Pathak said here on Monday that nine candidates have been announced by the party though they were prepared to contest all the seats and win them comfortably.
"We have started preparation for the council polls well before and our system is working smoothly in all the constituencies," he added.

According to the programme, November 12 is the last date for filing of the nominations. Scrutiny of papers would be done on November 13 and last date for withdrawal is November 17.
Sources said that the polling would be held between 0800 hrs to 1700 hrs on December 1 and counting of votes would be done on December 3.
The seats where the biennial polls will be held are Lucknow division, Varanasi division, Agra division, Meerut division and Allahabad-Jhansi division of the graduate constituencies and Lucknow division, Varanasi division, Agra division, Meerut division, Bareilly-Moradabad division and Gorakhpur-Faizabad division of the teachers constituencies.
Congress and Samajwadi Party have announced some of the candidates for this crucial election to the upper house of the state legislature.
The Congress candidates are, Rajesh Dwivedi(Agra graduate), Jitendra Kumar( Teachers- Meerut), Ajay Kumar Singh ( Allahabad-Jhansi graduate), Brajesh Kumar Singh ( Graduate Lucknow), Sanjeev Singh( Varanasi- Graduate), Nagendra Dutt Tripathi( Gorakhpur - Faizabad teachers) and Dr Mehndi Hassan( Bareilly- Moradabad teachers).
Samajwadi Party candidates are, Dr Aseem ( Agra), Samshad Ali ( Meerut), Ram Singh Rana ( Lucknow), Ashutosh Sinha ( Varanasi) and Dr Maan Singh ( Allahabad- Jhansi), all for the graduate seats and Umashanker Choudhury Patel( Lucknow), Lal Bihar( Varanasi), Sanjay Kumar Mishra( Bareilly- Moradabad) Dharmendra Kumar ( Meerut), Harendra Choudhury( Agra) and Awadhesh( Gorakhpur- Faizabad) for teachers constituencies.
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