It is now official that the Bharatiya Janata Party will field 21 candidates for the Council elections slated for March 3. The party expelled two candidates for anti-party activities as they withdrew in favour of SP candidates.
BJP spokesman Vijay Bahadur Pathak said that state BJP chief Dr laxmi Kant Bajpai has expelled two leaders – Anirudh Singh Chandel (Unnao) and Anand Tripathi (Chiktrakoot)– for anti-party activities. Both had withdrawn in favour of the ruling SP.
“The state president had asked both the leaders to contest the elections and they had even filed papers. But in the eleventh hour, both of them withdrew their candidature,” Pathak said.
Elections would be held for 36 seats of Vidhan Parishad and members of the Panchayats, Nagar nigams / Palikas comprise the electoral college for this election.
The other candidates who will contest elections are Sanjay Sharma (Bulandshahr), Asha Singh (Bijnore-Moradabad), Surat Singh Verma (Muzaffarnagar-Saharanpur), PP Singh (Rampur-Bareilly), JPS Rathore (Plibhit-Shahajahanpur), Jitendra Yadav (Budaun), Raj Kumar Agarwal (Hardoi), Ramji Tripathi (Bahraich), Rajesh Singh (Gonda-Balrampur), SB Singh (Rae Bareli), Surendra Pandey (Faizabad-Ambedkar Nagar), Anil Charlie (Kanpur-Fatehpur), Ashok Kumar (Etawah), Hari Om Upadhaya (Jhansi-Jalaun), RC Shukla (Allahabad), KC Tripathi (Sultanpur), Satish Singh (Jaunpur), Rajesh Singh (Azamgarh-Mau), Pramod Kumar (Basti-Sidharth Nagar), Sunil Singh (Deoria) and Anup Singh (Ballia).
Pathak said that the party would win a majority of the seats as a result the ruling Samajwadi Party will suffer a huge setback in this election.