U.P. Assembly polls | BJP retains Ministers in new U.P. list
The Hindu
The party has replaced candidates in around 20 seats
In its latest list of 91 candidates, mostly in eastern Uttar Pradesh, the BJP has retained its trust on more than a dozen Ministers in the Yogi Adityanath-led government even as it replaced candidates in around 20 seats.
The BJP has once again fielded Ministers Suresh Pasi in Jagdishpur, Rajendra Pratap Singh ‘Moti’ in Patti, Siddharth Nath Singh in Allahabad West, Nand Gopal Gupta Nandi in Allahabad South, Ramapati Shastri in Mankapur, Jai Pratap Singh in Bansi, Satish Dwivedi in Itwa and Jai Prakash Nishad in Rudrapur.
In Jaunpur, Minister Girish Chandra Yadav retained his candidature, so did Upendra Tiwari Phephna in Ballia and Surya Pratap Shahi in Pathardeva, Deoria. Minister Shri Ram Chauhan, an MLA from Dhanghata in Sant Kabir Nagar, has been shifted to the Khajani seat, while Minister Mukut Bihari Verma has been dropped in Kaiserganj in favour of his son Gaurav Verma.