The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday released its second list of candidates.
While there has been no significant reshuffle in the ten assembly seats of Kanpur Nagar, the sitting MLA or runner-up candidates have been fielded in most of the seats.
Senior IPS Asim Arun, who voluntarily retired from the post of Kanpur Police Commissioner, has been given ticket from Kannauj Sadar constituency.
The party has fielded sitting MLA Neelima Katiyar from Kalyanpur, sitting MLA Abhijit Singh Sanga from Bithoor, sitting MLA Surendra Maithani from Govind Nagar, sitting MLA Mahesh Trivedi from Kidwainagar, sitting MLA and state minister Satish Mahana from Maharajpur, and runner-up candidate of 2017 Raghunandan Bhadauria from Cantt.
However, the party fielded Rahul Bachha Sonkar from Bilhaur, won the seat and was represented by Bhagwati Prasad Sagar on a BJP ticket in 2017. Sagar along with Swami Prasad Maurya recently resigned from the BJP.
Salil Vishnoi, a three-time MLA and member of the Legislative Council and state vice-president of the BJP, has been given a ticket from the Sisamau assembly. Vishnoi, who contested from Aryanagar in 2017, was the runner-up and lost the election to Amitabh Bajpai of SP.
Meanwhile, Suresh Awasthi, who was runner-up from Sisamau seat in 2017, has been given ticket from Aryanagar. In 2017, he contested from Sisamau and was runner-up. SP’s Irfan Solanki had won this seat.
Asim Kumar Arun, who joined BJP on January 16, has been fielded from Kannauj (Sadar).
Kannauj (Sadar) is held by the opposition Samajwadi Party (SP), whose candidate Anil Kumar Dohre defeated BJP’s Banwari Lal Dohre in the 2017 state elections.
From Chhibramau, BJP has fielded sitting MLA Archana Pandey. Pandey defeated Tahir Hussain Siddiqui of Bahujan Samaj Party.
The party has re-elected sitting MLA from Tirwa Kailash Singh Rajput, who defeated Samajwadi Party candidate Vijay Bahadur Pal in 2017.
Read | UP elections: BJP gave tickets to 49 OBCs, SC candidates in fourth list