LUCKNOW/NEW DELHI: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and his two deputies, Keshav Prasad Maurya and Dinesh Sharma, will contest the upcoming state Legislative Council bypolls, the BJP announced today.
Even though the filing of nomination began yesterday, no nomination paper was filed till today.
According to BJP sources, Adityanath and his two deputies, besides two ministers – Swatantra Dev Singh and Mohsin Raza – were likely to file nominations close to the last date.
The victory of all five BJP nominees appears a foregone conclusion given the party’s overwhelming majority in the 403 -member assembly.
Hours after the saffron party announced its candidates, SP chief Akhilesh Yadav took a potshot saying that had there been strength in the BJP, its leaders would have fought direct elections to enter the state legislature and not taken the Council route. (AGENCIES)
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