Lucknow. The churning of the Bharatiya Janata Party, which has declared candidates on all the remaining six seats in the first and second phase of the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, is now going on for the selection of the candidates for the third and fourth phases. In the ongoing meetings with the national and Uttar Pradesh leadership in Delhi for the past two days, the names of the panels have also been considered in the view that if there is a tough fight in these two phases, the BJP is expected to lead well. The names of the candidates will be finalized in the meeting of the Central Election Committee on Wednesday.
Apart from announcing Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to be contested from Gorakhpur city and Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya from Sirathu, BJP has declared 107 candidates out of total 113 candidates for the first and second phases. Apart from the remaining six seats, the party has started exercise to decide the candidates for the 118 assembly seats in the third and fourth phases. Top leaders of Uttar Pradesh have been gathered in Delhi since Monday.
On Tuesday morning, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath met with National President JP Nadda. After this, apart from Nadda, Home Minister Amit Shah and state election in-charge Dharmendra Pradhan along with CM Yogi, State President Swatantradev Singh and State General Secretary Organization Sunil Bansal held a long meeting in the party’s central office. Party sources said that discussions have also taken place for 61 seats in the fifth phase in these meetings. Senior leaders discussed the panel of each seat, but in the proposed Central Election Committee meeting on Wednesday in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, candidates will be made for the third and fourth phases only.
In fact, for the BJP in the third and fourth phases of elections in Uttar Pradesh, the land is considered to be very solid and at some places uncooked. Kanpur-Bundelkhand is such a region where after the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the BJP had given a tough thrashing to the rival parties in the 2017 assembly elections as well. In a way, the opposition in these areas was wiped out. It will be the effort of the party to cut tickets at least so that the atmosphere of displeasure of the workers is not created unnecessarily.
Hathras, Sadabad, Farrukhabad are the areas of influence of farmers, while in areas like Lakhimpur, Dhaurhara, Pilibhit, the party wants to lay the board with good strategy and strong seals. Similarly, in the third phase, there are seats like Mainpuri, Bhogaon, Shikohabad, Firozabad, Etawah, Jaswantnagar and Kannauj, which are said to be SP strongholds. The BJP would like to take the lead in these areas by fielding strong candidates in the caste-regional equations. It is expected that the final decision on the candidates for the third and fourth phases will be taken in the meeting of the Central Election Committee.
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