The Bharatiya Janata Party in Uttar Pradesh, on Monday, announced nine candidates, five for graduate and four for teachers constituencies, for the 11 seats of these constituencies of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council where polling is scheduled for December 1.
The BJP left two seats of teachers’ constituencies and is likely to support some other candidates.
The elections to these seats were delayed by six months due to the COVID-19 pandemic as these seats fell vacant on May 6 last after the end of the tenure of five graduate constituency members and six teachers constituency members.
The candidates are: Avith Kumar Singh (Lucknow, graduate constituency), Kedarnath Singh (Varanasi, graduate), Manvendra Pratap Singh (Agra, graduate), Dinesh Kumar Goel (Meerut, graduate) and Dr Yogesh Dutt Sharma (Allahabad-Jhansi graduate).
The other four BJP candidates of the teachers constituencies are Umesh Dwivedi (Lucknow), Dinesh Chandra Vashistha (Agra), Shrichand Sharma (Meerut) and Dr Hari Singh Dhillon (Bareilly-Moradabad).
UP BJP vice-president Vijay Bahadur Pathak said here on Monday that nine candidates had been announced by the party though it was prepared to contest all the seats and win them comfortably.
“We started preparations for the Council polls well in advance and our system is working smoothly in all the constituencies,” he said.
According to the programme, November 12 is the last date for filing of nominations. Scrutiny of papers will be done on November 13 and the last date for withdrawal of nomination is November 17.
Sources said that the polling would be held between 08:00 hours and 17:00 hours on December 1 and counting of votes would be done on December 3.
The seats where the biennial polls will be held are Lucknow division, Varanasi division, Agra division, Meerut division and Allahabad-Jhansi division of the graduate constituencies and Lucknow division, Varanasi division, Agra division, Meerut division, Bareilly-Moradabad division and Gorakhpur-Faizabad division of the teachers constituencies.
Congress and Samajwadi Party have announced some of their candidates for this crucial election to the Upper House of the state legislature.
The Congress candidates are, Rajesh Dwivedi (Agra, graduate), Jitendra Kumar (Meerut, teachers), Ajay Kumar Singh (Allahabad-Jhansi, graduate), Brajesh Kumar Singh (Lucknow, graduate ), Sanjeev Singh (Varanasi- graduate), Nagendra Dutt Tripathi (Gorakhpur-Faizabad teachers) and Dr Mehndi Hassan (Bareilly- Moradabad teachers).
The Samajwadi Party candidates are Dr Aseem (Agra), Samshad Ali (Meerut), Ram Singh Rana (Lucknow), Ashutosh Sinha (Varanasi) and Dr Maan Singh (Allahabad- Jhansi), all for the graduate seats and Umashanker Choudhury Patel (Lucknow), Lal Bihar (Varanasi), Sanjay Kumar Mishra (Bareilly-Moradabad), Dharmendra Kumar (Meerut), Harendra Choudhury (Agra) and Awadhesh (Gorakhpur-Faizabad) for teachers constituencies.