Lucknow: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) has released the first list of candidates 53 assembly seats, contesting Uttar Pradesh Polls. The list consists of 53 names, the remaining names will be announced in a day or two.
Addressing the press conference at Lucknow she said, “We have finalized candidates on 53 seats in the first list, the remaining 5 will be released in a day or two.”
Elections for the 403 Assembly constituencies in Uttar Pradesh will be held in seven phases starting February 10. A total of 58 assembly seats spread over 11 districts will go to the polls in the first phase on February 10. Mayawati expressed confidence about winning the polls and forming the government.
“In the upcoming assembly elections, the people will definitely bring our party to power again and I also want to assure them that after coming to power this time our party will again run the government in all matters like its previous regime,” she said.
Polling in Uttar Pradesh will be held on February 10, 14, 20, 23, 27, and March 3 and 7 in seven phases. The counting of votes will take place on March 10. In the 2017 Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had won 312 out of 403 seats. The Samajwadi Party and the Congress had sealed an alliance with the former contesting on 298 seats and the latter on the remaining 105 seats. The SP could manage to win only 47 seats and Congress won seven seats. Bahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP) had won 19 seats.
Uttar Pradesh 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.
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