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Last Update: April 23, 2023, 20:31 IST
The second phase of polling in Shahjahanpur will be held on May 11. (Representational Image/PTI)
The second phase of polling in Shahjahanpur will be held on May 11. The counting of votes will take place on May 13. State ministers Suresh Khanna and JPS Rathore were also present at the press conference.
Samajwadi Party’s mayoral candidate from Shahjahanpur, Archana Verma, on Sunday joined the BJP in the presence of senior party leaders, including Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Brajesh Pathak.
Welcoming Verma into the party fold, Pathak said, “The Samajwadi Party (SP) had declared Archana Verma as its mayor candidate from Shahjahanpur in the upcoming urban local body elections. However, he was finding it difficult to connect himself with the party (SP). He said, ‘She was deeply hurt by the atrocities on women in the SP regime. When the SP announced him as their (mayor) candidate, he decided to join the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on the call for nationalism given by the Prime Minister. Narendra Modi Those who want to work dedicatedly for Bharat Mata and want to establish a strong rule of law in UP should join the saffron party.
Pathak said Verma’s father-in-law Rammurti Singh Verma has been a four-time MLA (three times from Shahjahanpur’s Jalalabad assembly constituency and once from Dadraul constituency). The minister said that he was also a one-time MP from Shahjahanpur (1996).
The second phase of polling in Shahjahanpur will be held on May 11. The counting of votes will take place on May 13. State ministers Suresh Khanna and JPS Rathore were also present at the press conference.
Meanwhile, UP BJP’s media co-incharge Abhay Singh said senior party leaders will flag off the party’s ‘Vikas Rath Yatra’ from different cities of the state on Monday as part of the campaign for the ongoing urban local body elections.
Voting for the urban local body elections is to be held on May 4 and 11. The counting of votes will take place on May 13. Elections will be held for 17 seats of mayor, 1,420 seats of corporator, 199 seats of Nagar Palika Parishad president, 5,327 seats. Nagar Palika Parishad member, 544 seats of Nagar Panchayat president and 7,178 seats of Nagar Panchayat member.
The politically important northern state sends 80 MPs to the Lok Sabha.
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