Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will file his nomination papers as a Bharatiya Janata Party candidate from the Gorakhpur Sadar Assembly constituency on Friday.
During the nomination, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Union Minister and party’s UP election in-charge Dharmendra Pradhan, and BJP state President Swatantra Dev Singh would also be present.
Later the leaders will also address the nomination meeting.This is for the first time that Yogi Adityanath will contest the assembly election.
Party sources here said on Thursday that Yogi would address a BJP workers' conference in Maharana Pratap Inter College in which 1,000 elected representatives of different sections of the city would attend the public meeting. People from various social organisations, educationists, doctors, social workers, entrepreneurs, businessmen and advocates are likely to attend the meeting.