On Saturday, the BJP declared that Yogi Adityanath, the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, will run for the seat of Gorakhpur in the next Assembly elections. The party has announced the name of 107 candidates for the seats that will be contested in the first two stages of the election.
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Yogi Adityanath’s candidacy was rumoured from three probable seats — Ayodhya, Gorakhpur Urban, and Mathura — but the BJP Parliamentary Board determined that the Chief Minister should run from Gorakhpur Urban. Adityanath served as the Member of Parliament for Gorakhpur in the Lok Sabha from 1998 till he was elected Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh in 2017.
It was supposed that the Bharatiya Janata Party would field the top names in the Uttar Pradesh elections in which the name of CM, Yogi Adityanath and deputy CM, Keshav Prasad Maurya were included.
After the BJP’s core group indicated interest in fielding Yogi from these seats, especially after the eastern part of the state was viewed as sliding away from the party, the party’s core group decided to do so.
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Many of the boxes would have been ticked by fielding Yogi from Ayodhya because the continuing construction of the Ram temple has raised the seat’s political prominence for the ruling party.
But the Gorakhpur Urban seat being extremely secure for the BJP and Yogi Adityanath’s stronghold with the Gorakhnath Temple, the CM may not have to spend much time campaigning and can concentrate on the rest of the election plan in UP, as he is one of the top star campaigners.
The list was revealed during a news conference at the BJP‘s headquarters here by Uttar Pradesh in-charge and Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, as well as the party’s general secretary Arun Singh.
The names of the candidates for 107 assembly seats are as followed:
- Tajendra Singh Nirwal from Shamli
- Umesh Malik from Budhana
- Sapna Kashyap from Charthaval
- Pramod Otwal from Poornaji
- Kapil Dev Agarwal from Muzaffarnagar
- Vikram Saini from Khatauli
- Prashant Gurjar from Meerapur
- Manendra Pal Singh from Siwalkhas
- Sangeet Som from Sardana
- Dinesh Khatik to Hastinapur
- Amit Agarwal from Meerut Cantt
- Satyaveer Tyagi from Kithor
- Kamal Dutt Sharma from Meerut
- Somender Tomar from Meerut South
- Sahendra Singh Ramala from Chhaprauli
- KP Singh Malik from Barot
- Yogesh Dhama from Baghpat
- Nandkishore Gurjar from Loni
- Ajit Pal Tyagi from Muradnagar
- Sunil Sharma from Sahibabad
- Laxminarayan from Chata
- Rajesh Choudhary from Maad
- Meghraj Singh from Govardhan
- Shrikant Sharma from Mathura
- Pooran Prakash Jatav from Baldev
- Dharampal from Etmadpur
- Yogendra Upadhyay from South Agra
- Purushottam Khandelwal from Agra
- Bebirani Rani Morya from Agra Countryside
- Babulal from Fatehpur Sikri
- Rani Paschalika from Waah
- Harendra Teotia from Garh Mukteshwar
- Dhirendra Singh from Jewar
- Tejpal Nagar from Dadri
- Anoop Pradhan from Khair
- Dinesh Khatik from Hastinapur
- Amit Agarwal from Meerut Cantt
- Yogesh Dhama from Baghpat
- Anil Parashar from Cole
- Pankaj Singh from Noida
- Satyaveer Tyagi from Kithor
- Sunil Sharma from Sahibabad
- Dharmesh from Dhaulana
- Pankaj Singh from Noida
- Laxmiraj Singh from Secunderabad
- Pradeep Choudhary from Bulandshahr
- Devendra Choudhary from Saina
- Meenakshi Singh from Khurja
- Jaibir Singh from Barauli
- Sandeep Singh from Atrauli
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The names of 103 candidates are announced while the 63 names are repeated for the Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections.
