The Bharatiya Janata Party announced six more candidates for the biennial elections to Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council on Monday, accommodating some turncoats who had joined the ruling party before the assembly polls.
Former Samajwadi Party MLC Shailendra Pratap Singh, who had joined the BJP recently, has been given ticket from Sultanpur while former Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha chief Subhash Yaduvansh has been fielded from Basti-Siddharthnagar local authorities seat.
Similarly, the party has fielded Avinash Singh Chauhan from Kanpur-Fatehpur constituency, Vineet Singh from Mirzapur-Sonbhadra, Sudama Singh Patel from Varanasi and Brijesh Singh Prishu from Jaunpur local authorities constituencies.
Earlier, the BJP had released a list of 30 candidates and with Monday's announcement, the party has now announced candidates for all 36 seats going to polls.
The election to these seats will be held on April 9 and this edition of election to legislative council is through local bodies.
The UP Legislative Council has a total of 100 seats. Of these, 36 members are elected by representatives of local bodies and 16 from teacher constituencies. Experts from 10 different fields are nominated by the governor to the Upper House. For the remaining 38 seats, members of legislative assembly vote to elect the MLCs.