Meeting Elections 2022 LIVE Updates: Counting of votes will probably be held on March 10. (File)
New Delhi:
BJP at the moment introduced candidates for all 9 Lucknow seats after a protracted dialogue. Excessive profile hopefuls from the capital Lucknow, Aparna Yadav, the daughter-in-law of Samajwadi Get together patriarch and former chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav, and BJP MP Rita Bahuguna Joshi’s son Mayank Joshi, have been each not on the record.
Former Enforcement Directorate officer Rajeshwar Singh, whose voluntary retirement was at the moment accepted by the union authorities has been given the social gathering ticket from the Sarojini Nagar meeting seat. Swati Singh, state’s minister of state for lady welfare, and her husband Dayashankar Singh have been each eyeing the seat.
The high-profile Lucknow Cantonment seat, the place each Ms Yadav and Mr Joshi have been hoping to be nominated, has been given to state minister Brijesh Pathak. That is thought-about a secure seat for The social gathering. Rita Bahuguna Joshi had defeated Aparna Yadav on this seat within the final elections.
The BJP had received eight out of the 9 seats in Lucknow within the final state elections.
Uttar Pradesh, Goa, Manipur, Punjab, and Uttarakhand will vote over seven phases beginning February 10, with counting of votes scheduled for March 10.
A complete of 690 Meeting constituencies will vote over the following two months, with the utmost in UP (403 seats) adopted by Punjab (117), Uttarakhand (70), Manipur (60) and Goa (40).
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The Congress has determined that it’s going to not subject candidates in opposition to Samajwadi Get together chief Akhilesh Yadav and his uncle Shivpal Yadav as a gesture of courtesy. The Samajwadi Get together, regardless of its ‘on once more off once more” relationship with the Congress, doesn’t subject candidates in opposition to Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi from Amethi and Rae Bareli in parliamentary elections. This time, the 2 events haven’t renewed their alliance after the disastrous end result of their 2017 three way partnership.
Akhilesh Yadav is contesting the Uttar Pradesh meeting polls for the primary time from Karhal, a seat beneath his father Mulayam Singh’s stronghold Mainpuri.
