Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections: BJP Announces List of 91 Candidates

The party has decided to give tickets to 13 ministers but Cooperative Minister Mukut Bihari Verma has been dropped. His son Gaurav will contest from Kaiserganj seat in Bahraich.

Shalabh Mani Tripathi, media advisor to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, has been given ticket from Deoria. The party had earlier announced that CM Adityanath will contest from Gorakhpur city in the upcoming state elections.

The ministers who have been fielded include Siddharth Nath Singh contesting from Allahabad West and Nand Gopal Gupta ‘Nandi’ from Allahabad South.

Agriculture Minister Surya Pratap Shahi has also got a place in this list.

This comes a day after Union Home Minister Amit Shah said that the upcoming assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh are not to decide an MLA, a minister or a chief minister, the elections will decide the future course of the state for the next 20 years. are to do.

Addressing a ‘prabhavi voter samvad’ (effective voter dialogue) in Greater Noida, the senior BJP leader attacked the previous state governments run by the Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samajwadi Party on several issues including law and order.

He also hit out at the Congress along with the SP and BSP for opposing the abrogation of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir, besides emphasizing the BJP’s commitment to national and internal security as they conducted surgical strikes on Pakistan and crackdown on criminal elements. cited. in up.

Shah said the state had seen mafia rule and open extortion during previous governments, but stressed that the situation has changed in the last five years under the Yogi Adityanath government.

“The upcoming elections are not to decide an MLA, or a minister or a chief minister. Elections are to decide the future course of Uttar Pradesh for the next 20 years,” he told a gathering. Farmers, traders, professionals and teachers.

Shah said, “When we look back in the last 20 years, there were governments of ‘bua-bhatija’. There was mafia rule and to such an extent that no one was ready to invest in the state. There was an era,” Shah said, referring to BSP chief Mayawati and SP president Akhilesh Yadav.