Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday announced four more candidates for the Lok Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh.
With this, the party has announced its candidates for 70 out of 80 Lok Sabha seats in UP and in the process, it has so far denied tickets to 15 sitting MPs.
The BJP has fielded former chairperson of Prayagraj district panchayat, Kesri Devi Patel, from Phulpur and Neelam Sonkar from Lalganj (Reserved) constituency.
Anurag Sharma has been fielded from Jhansi, replacing Union minister Uma Bharti, who won the seat in 2014 but has declined to contest election from there.
The BJP has changed the candidate from Banda Lok Sabha seat and fielded RK Patel in place of sitting MP BP Mishra.
For the bypoll to Nighasan assembly seat in Lakhimpur Kheri, the party has fielded former MLA Ram Kumar Verma’s son Shashank Verma. The bypoll has been necessitated due to the untimely death of sitting legislator Ram Kumar Verma.
