The Central Election Committee of the BJP on Tuesday released a list of candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha byelections to be held in Uttar Pradesh and the Assembly byelections of Rajasthan, Bihar, Chhattisgarh and Uttar Pradesh.
For the upcoming Lok Sabha bypolls in Mainpuri, the BJP has announced Raghuraj Singh Shakya’s candidature. For the Assembly bypolls, the BJP has fielded Ashok Kumar Pincha from the Sardarshahar Assembly constituency in Rajasthan.
From the Kurhani constituency in Bihar, Kedar Prasad Gupta will enter the field on BJP’s ticket. Brahmanand Netam will be BJP’s candidate from the Bhanupratappur Assembly constituency in Chhattisgarh.
Two seats from the state of Uttar Pradesh are going for Assembly byelections. From the Khatauli seat, the BJP has fielded Rajkumari Saini, meanwhile, from the Rampur seat, Akash Saxena will be BJP’s candidate.
The date for polling is December 5 while the date for counting votes is December 8, which coincides with the results of the Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat Assembly elections.
The candidature was announced through a press release, undersigned by the BJP National General Secretary and Head Quarter in-charge Arun Singh.
A total of five seats in four states, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Chattisgarh and Bihar, will go for the Assembly bypolls. Meanwhile, the Parliamentary Constituency Mainpuri will be going to the polls after the demise of Samajwadi Party veteran and MP Mulayam Singh Yadav, according to a notification by the ECI.
The Samajwadi Party (SP) has fielded Dimple Yadav, former MP and wife of party chief Akhilesh Yadav, as its candidate for the Mainpuri Lok Sabha constituency. Notably, Mainpuri is considered a stronghold of the Samajwadi Party.
While reacting to the Samajwadi Party’s decision to put Akhilesh Yadav’s wife Dimple Yadav as a candidate in the upcoming Mainpuri’s bypolls, the Deputy CM said the BJP would give the ticket to one of its prominent leaders for the upcoming Mainpuri bypolls.
