BJP Releases List Of Candidates For 1st, 2nd Phases; Adityanath To Contest From Gorakhpur

UP Election 2022: BJP's in-charge for Uttar Pradesh Dharmendra Pradhan on Saturday announced that Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will contest from the Gorakhpur Assembly seat in the upcoming state polls.

Written by: India.com News Desk Edited by: Analiza Pathak

Updated: January 15, 2022, 3:13 PM IST

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BJP releases first list of candidates for Uttar Pradesh

New Delhi: BJP on Saturday 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 the press conference in New Delhi. “We will be releasing list of candidates for first and second phases shortly, for upcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly Polls,” BJP leader & Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said.  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 has 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.

Here’s the full list of BJP candidates for UP Election 2022:

1. Gorakhpur (Urban) – Yogi Adityanath – Gorakhpur (Urban)
2. Sirathu – Keshav Prasad Maurya
3. Kairana – Mriganka Singh
4. Thana Bhawan – Suresh Rana
5. Shamli – Tejendra Singh Nirwal
6. Budhana – Umesh Malik
7. Charthawal – Sapna Kashyap
8. Purqazi – Pramod Utwal
9. Muzaffarnagar – Kapil Dev Aggarwal
10. Khatauli – Vikram Saini
11. Meerapur – Prashant Gurjar
12. Siwalkhas – Manendra Pal Singh
13. Sardhana – Sangeet Som
14. Hastinapur – Dinesh Khatik
15. Kithore – Satyavir Tyagi
16. Meerut Cantt. – Amit Agarwal
17. Meerut South – Somendra Tomar
18. Chhaprauli – Sahendra Singh Ramala
19. Baraut – Krishnapal Singh Malik
20. Bagpat – Yogesh Dhama
21. Loni – Nandkishor Gurjar
22. Muradnagar – Ajit Pal Tyagi
23. Sahibabad – Sunil Sharma
24. Ghaziabad – Atul Garg
25. Modinagar – Manju Shivach
26. Dholana – Dharmesh Tomar
27. Hapur (SC) – Vijay Pal Aadti
28. Garhmukteshwar – Harendra Choudhary Tevatiya
29. Noida – Pankaj Singh
30. Dadri – Tejpal Singh Nagar
31. Jewar – Dhirendra Singh
32. Secunderabad – Laxmiraj Singh
33. Bulandshahr – Pradeep Chaudhary
34. Syana – Devendra Singh Lodhi
35. Anupshahr – Sanjay Sharma
36. Debai – C P Singh
37. Shikarpur – Anil Sharma
38. Khurja (SC) – Meenakshi Singh
39. Khair (SC) – Anoop Pradhan Balmiki
40. Barauli – Thakur Jayveer Singh
41. Atrauli – Sandeep Singh
42. Chharra – Ravendra Pal Singh
43. Koil – Anil Parashar
44. Iglas – Rajkumar Sahyogi
45. Chhata – Chaudhary Laxmi Narayan
46. Mant – Rajesh Chaudhary
47. Goverdhan – Thakur Meghshyam Singh
48. Mathura – Shrikant Sharma
49. Baldev (SC) – Pooran Prakash Jatav
50. Etmadpur – Dharampal Singh
51. Agra Cantt. – G S Dharmesh
52. Agra South – Yogendra Upadhyaya
53. Agra North – Purshottam Khandelwal
54. Agra Rural (SC) – Baby Rani Maurya
55. Fatehpur Sikri – Choudhary Babulal
56. Kheragarh – Bhagwan Singh Kushwaha
57. Fatehabad – Chhotelal Verma
58. Bah – Rani Pakshalika
59. Behat – Naresh Saini
60. Nakur – Mukesh Chaudhary
61. Saharanpur Nagar – Rajeev Gumbar
62. Saharanpur – Jagpal Singh
63. Deoband – Brijesh Singh Rawat
64. Rampur Maniharan (SC) – Devendra Nim
65. Gangoh – Keerat Singh Gurjar
66. Najibabad – Kunwar Bhartendu Singh
67. Nagina (SC) – Dr Yashwant
68. Barahpur – Sushant Singh
69. Dhampur – Ashok Kumar Rana
70. Nehtaur – Om Kumar
71. Bijnor – Suchi Mousam Chaudhary
72. Chandpur – Kamlesh Singh
73. Noorpur – C P Singh
74. Kanth – Rajesh Kumar Chunnu
75. Moradabad Rural – Krishankant Mishra
76. Moradabad Nagar – Ritesh Gupta
77. Kundarki – Kamal Prajapati
78. Bilari – Parmeshwar Lal Saini
79. Chandausi (SC) – Gulabo Devi
80. Asmoli – Harendra Singh (Rinku)
81. Sambhal – Rajesh Singhal
82. Chamraua – Mohan Kumar Lodhi
83. Bilaspur – Baldev Singh Aulakh
84. Ramour – Aakash Saxena
85. Milak (SC) – RajbalaDhanaura (SC) – Rajeev Tarara
86. Naugawan Sadat – Devendra Nagpal
87. Amroha – Ram Singh Saini
88. Hasanpur – Mahendra Singh Khadagvanshi
89. Gunnaur – Ajeet Kumar (Raju Yadav)
90. Bisauli (SC) – Kushagra Sagar
91. Sahaswan – K D Bhardwaj
92. Bilsi – Harish Shakya
93. Budaun – Mahesh Gupta
94. Shekhupur – Dharmendra Shakya
95. Dataganj – Rajeev Singh (Babbu Bhaiya)
96. Meerganj – D C Verma
97. Nawabganj – M P Aarya Gangwar
98. Faridpur (SC) – Dr Shyam Bihari Lal
99. Bithari Chainpur – Dr Raghvendra Sharma
100. Bareilly – Dr Arun Saxena
101. Bareilly Cantt. – Dr Sanjeev Aggarwal
102. Aonla – Dharmpal Singh
103. Katra – Veer Vikram Singh
104. Powayan (SC) – Chetram Pasi
105. Shahjahanpur – Suresh Khanna

Full list of BJP candidates

20 sitting MLAs dropped from BJP’s first list

In its first list of candidates, the BJP has not given tickets to 20 sitting MLAs. Of the seven Assembly seats in Bulandshahr, the party has not given tickets to four sitting MLAs.

Elections will be held in Uttar Pradesh in seven phases from February 10, 14, 20, 23, 27, March 3 and 7 and the results for the 403-member Assembly will be declared on March 10.

Polling for the Gorakhpur (Urban) seat will be held on March 3 – the sixth phase.