The bharatiya janata party on thursday announced the candidate for Sisamau seat in kanpur for the UP by-election. bjp has given a chance to suresh Awasthi here. suresh Awasthi will face Naseema Solanki, wife of SP leader Irfan Solanki. suresh Awasthi has contested from Sisamau seat on a bjp ticket in 2017. suresh Awasthi lost that election by 5500 votes.
Earlier on thursday morning, the bjp had announced the names of candidates for seven seats for the assembly by-elections to be held in Uttar Pradesh. The bjp has declared Ramveer Singh Thakur from Kundarki, sanjeev Sharma from Ghaziabad, Surendra Diler from Khair, Anuj Yadav from Karhal, deepak Patel from Phulpur, Dharmaraj Nishad from Katehari and Suchismita Maurya from Majhawan as candidates. Let us tell you that by-elections are to be held on 9 assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh.
bjp had announced the names of its candidates for 7 of these seats today. The party has given one seat, Mirapur, to its ally RLD to contest. BJP's ally Nishad party was also demanding a seat for itself, but after several rounds and talks at many levels, bjp finally decided to field its own candidate. bjp has fielded Suchismita Maurya from Nishad Party's seat Majhawan.
Due to the setback in Uttar Pradesh in the lok sabha elections, the by-elections to be held on nine assembly seats in the state have become very important for the BJP. The prestige of the state's chief minister Yogi Adityanath is at stake on these seats, while this by-election has also become an election of prestige for both Akhilesh Yadav's party and his family.
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