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Lucknow: The Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) has released its second list of candidates for the upcoming Uttar Pradesh Elections. Total 85 names have been announced in the second list of ruling party. Aditi Singh, the young MLA who recently quit Congress to join BJP, will be contesting from Rae Bareli.
Earlier on Saturday, the party had released the first list of candidates for Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections. The list was released by Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan & BJP national general secretary Arun Singh at a press conference in New Delhi. The BJP’s in-charge for Uttar Pradesh announced that Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will contest from the Gorakhpur Assembly seat in the upcoming state polls. During a press conference, Pradhan also said that Deupty CM Keshav Prasad Maurya will contest from Siratu Assembly seat.
The party had announced names of candidates for 57 out of the 58 seats which will go to polls in the first phase on February 10 and 48 out of 55 seats which will vote in the second phase on February 14. Besides, the BJP has also given more than 68 per cent tickets to candidates from backward classes and women. In the first list, 44 OBC candidates, 19 from Scheduled Castes and 10 women have been named by the BJP.
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