New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday announced the names of 30 candidates for the MLC polls in Uttar Pradesh.
The legislative council elections are set to be held on April 9, with the counting of votes scheduled to take place on April 12.
Nominations for the legislative council elections to be held across 36 seats started on March 15.
Here’s the list of BJP candidates:
- Hari Pratap Singh from Pratapgarh
- Anand Kumar Singh from Barabanki
- Pragya Tripathi from Bahraich
- Awadhesh Singh Manju from Gonda
- Hari Om Pandey from Faizabad
- CP Chandra from Gorakhpur-Maharajganj
- Ratan Pal Singh from Deoria
- Arun Kumar Yadav from Azamgarh-Mau
- Ravi Shankar Singh Pappu from Ballia
- Chanchal Singh from Ghazipur
- KP Srivastava from Allahabad
- Jitendra Singh Tomar from Banda-Hamirpur
- Rama Niranjan from Jhansi-Jalaun-Lalitpur
- Pranshu Dutt Dwivedi from Etawah-Farrukhabad
- Vijay Shivhare from Agra-Firozabad
- Omprakash Singh from Mathura-Etah-Mainpuri
- Ashish Yadav Ashu from Mathura-Etah -Mainpuri
- Rishi Pal Singh from Aligarh
- Narendra Bhati from Bulandshahr
- Dharmendra Bhardwaj from Meerut-Ghaziabad
- Vandana Mudit Verma from Muzaffarnagar-Saharanpur
The elections will be held in two phases. Nominations for 30 seats in the first phase will be held from March 15 to 19. Scrutiny of the nomination papers for this phase will be held on March 21 and withdrawal of nominations will be allowed till March 23. Voting will be held on April 9 and counting of votes will take place on April 12.
