BJP and SP have put their efforts for UP MLC polls. Polling for 11 seats in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council is scheduled for October 23
UP MLC Polls: Check BJP and SP candidate list: Polling for 11 seats in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council is scheduled for October 23, with campaigning set to conclude this evening. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) and the Samajwadi Party(SP) have put their full efforts for these elections, which will be held before the assembly elections in 2027.
If we talk about these 11 seats, BJP’s Avneesh Kumar Singh and SP’s Kanti Singh are facing each other for the Lucknow graduate seat. SP’s Akash Aggarwal is facing BJP’s Dr. Manvendra Pratap Singh in the Agra graduate seat. In Meerut-Saharanpur, SP’s Pramendra Bhati is contesting against BJP’s Dinesh Goyal. SP chief Akhilesh Yadav himself has appealed for votes for MLC candidate Kanti Singh.
Similarly, there is direct competition between Kedarnath Singh of BJP and Ashutosh Sinha of SP in Varanasi-Mirzapur graduation seat. In the Allahabad-Jhansi seat, BJP’s Ashok Kumar Rathore and SP’s Dr. Man Singh Yadav are competing.
The effort is intense from both BJP and SP sides for graduate as well as teacher MLC. SP’s Sushil Kumar Patel is against BJP’s Umesh Dwivedi from Lucknow. Srichand Sharma of BJP from Meerut-Ghaziabad, Nitin Kumar Tomar of SP, Dr. Harisingh Dhillo from Bareilly-Moradabad from BJP and Haji Mohammad Danish Akhtar from SP. Dr. Pramod Mishra from Varanasi and Lal Bihari Yadav from SP are in the fray. BJP’s Hari Kishore Tiwari from Agra-Aligarh, Dr Prakash Chand Gupta from SP and Dhruv Tripathi of BJP from Gorakhpur-Faizabad, BJP’s rebel candidate Dr Sanjayan Tripathi from SP are in the fray.
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Rebel candidates have become a major challenge for the BJP in this election. Dr. Sanjayan Tripathi from Gorakhpur-Faizabad joined the SP after not getting ticket from BJP. Simiarly, in several other constituencies, those upset over being denied tickets have declared rebellion against BJP.
