New Delhi: UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will contest next month’s Assembly election from the Gorakhpur (Urban constituency, the BJP said Saturday afternoon, as it released its first list of candidates.
Voting for the Gorakhpur (Urban) seat will be on March 3 – the sixth and penultimate phase.
There was earlier speculation that the Chief Minister – who has never stood in an Assembly election before – would contest from one of two temple towns – Ayodhya or Mathura. KP Maurya would be contesting from Prayagraj. Wherein, Baby Rani would fight from Agra. Shrikant Sharma has retained his seat from Mathura.
UP votes for a new government in a seven-phase poll that begins on February 10.
While addressing the press conference, Pradhan said that most of the poor houses in UP have been built in UP. UP has also got the benefit of door-to-door electricity, Pradhan Mantri Ayushman Yojana. Free food grains were made available to the poor by the UP and Central Government.Also these schemes for poor welfare have increased the confidence in the Modi regime. Yogi’s government has cracked down on rioters in the last 5 years. The corrupt have been cracked down. The daughter-in-law of the state can roam fearlessly even at night. We are confident that in this great festival of 2022, people will again bless us. The names have been agreed upon in the meeting of the Central Election Committee held in Delhi for three days.
Earlier today, BSP leader Mayawati had released the list of 53 BSP candidates. The SP-RLD alliance has finalized the names of 29 candidates. The BJP was waiting for the names of the candidates of the opposition parties to be released.
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