Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh)
The BJP's decision to drop Varun Gandhi, sitting Member of Parliament from Pilibhit and replace him with former Congressman and three year new entrant to the saffron party, Jitin Prasada in the forthcoming LS polls, has come as a surprise development. The party has however decided to field Varun's mother, Maneka Gandhi, a sitting MP from Sultanpur, from the same seat.
In the fifth list released on Sunday, the BJP has not announced the candidate for Kaiserganj, the seat held by former WFI chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh. The list of 13 candidate shows that the party has also denied a ticket to Sanghmitra Maurya from Budaun. U.P. minister Jitin Prasada will contest the Pilibhit seat instead of Varun Gandhi, while Durvijay Shakya, a state General Secretary, will be the party candidate in Budaun.
Sitting MP from Ghaziabad, Gen V.K. Singh (retd), who had earlier in the day announced on social media that he did not wish to contest elections, has been replaced with Atul Garg, a minister of state in the Yogi Adityanath government.
Another U.P. minister of state Anoop Valmiki has replaced sitting MP Rajvir Singh Diler in Hathras.
Sitting MP, Satish Gautam will contest their Sultanpur and Aligarh seats, respectively.
Sarvesh Singh has been renominated to contest the Moradabad seat. He had lost to SP’s S.T. Hasan in 2019.
In Saharanpur, the BJP has again named Raghav Lakhanpal to wrest back the seat from BSP which had won in 2019.
In Kanpur, the sitting MP Satyadev Pachauri has been dropped and Ramesh Awasthi, journalist and former member of the Hindi Rajbhasha Advisory Committee, will replace him. Pachauri had also informed the party President J.P. Nadda that he did not wish to contest elections.
In Bareilly, former Union Minister Santosh Gangwar has been dropped and he will be replaced by former MLA Chhatrapal Gangwar.
In Barabanki, sitting MP Upendra Rawat has been replaced with Rajrani Rawat. Bahraich's sitting MP Akshaywar Lal Gond has been replaced by Dr Arvind Gond
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