Lucknow: BJP has played a big bet in Uttar Pradesh Purvanchal. BJP can field five new faces here. These are mostly those faces who have joined BJP from other parties. The party may field the ticket of Rajesh Mishra, who joined BJP from Congress from Bhadohi, and current BJP MP Ramesh Bind. Rajesh Mishra has been a Congress MP from Varanasi seat in 2004 and has been the former Uttar Pradesh Congress President. Pooja Pal may get the ticket from Prayagraj in place of Rita Bahuguna Joshi.
Sources reveal that the BJP Central Election Committee has nominated former Army Chief General VK Singh, MP from Ghaziabad, Varun Gandhi from Pilibhit, Rita Bahuguna from Prayagraj seat, Virendra Singh Mast from Ballia, Rajveer Diler from Hathras, Ramcharan Bohra from Jaipur, Nihal from Ganganagar seat. Sanghamitra Maurya’s ticket has been canceled from Chand and Bandayu. Sources say that BJP has fielded Atul Garg from Ghaziabad, Jitin Prasad from Pilibhit, Anoop Balmiki from Hathras, Raghav Lakhanpal from Saharanpur, Satish Gautam from Aligarh, Pooja Kapil Mishra from Jaipur City seat, Maneka Gandhi from Sultanpur, Sarvesh Kumar from Moradabad, Odisha Tickets have been given to Dharmendra Pradhan from Sambhalpur seat, Sambit Patra from Puri and Aparajita Sarangi from Bhubaneswar.
Whereas Pooja Pal was SP MLA. She has joined BJP. Pooja is the wife of UP leader Raju Pal, who was killed a few years ago. Ghazipur seat may go to SubhaSP’s Brijesh Singh. Brijesh Singh is the mafia of Purvanchal. Neeraj Shekhar can get ticket from Ballia. Virendra Singh’s ticket may be canceled. Neeraj Shekhar is the son of former Prime Minister Chandrashekhar. A few years ago, she left SP and joined BJP. Her father, former Prime Minister Chandrashekhar, was also MP from Ballia. Alka Singh may get Lok Sabha ticket from Deoria. He is currently the Municipality Chairman.
