BJP pronounces candidates for UP & Bihar legislative council elections
1 min read New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday introduced names of 6 candidates for the upcoming biennial polls in Uttar Pradesh and for 1 seat in Bihar Legislative Council.
While 12 seats within the UP Legislative Council are falling vacant owing to the retirement of members, by-election to 2 seats in Bihar’s Upper House was necessitated owing to the election of Sushil Kumar Modi and Vinod Narain Jha to the Rajya Sabha and state Assembly respectively.
In Uttar Pradesh, Kunwar Manvendra Singh, Govind Narayan Shukla, Salil Bishnoi, Ashwini Tyagi, Dharmveer Prajapati and Surendra Chaudhary are set to contest for the Legislative Council on BJP ticket.
BJP releases an inventory of candidates for the upcoming biennial election to 12 legislative council seats in Uttar Pradesh, which is able to fall vacant later this month.
The celebration additionally fields Shahnawaz Hussain for by-polls to 2 Legislative Council seats in Bihar. pic.twitter.com/x5r0YGXbfH
— ANI (@ANI) January 16, 2021
In Bihar, former Union Minister Shahnawaz Hussain has been named as one of many BJP’s candidates for legislative council election in Bihar.
He misplaced the 2014 Lok Sabha elections from Bhagalpur and was not given ticket in 2019 LS polls. Currently, he’s the celebration’s nationwide spokesperson and a member of the celebration’s Central Election Committee.
The polling for 12 seats shall be held on January 28 and counting shall be executed, an hour later after completion of polling.
