Lucknow: The Fourth List of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) once again reflects its focus on Dalit and other backup (OBC) together they contributed 49 seats from 85, where candidates were announced on Friday night.
OBC just got 30 seats while 19 tickets went to Dalits, most of the Kori community.
The party has announced 195 from the possibility of 403 so far.
ASIM Arun, an IPS officer, who recently took a VR when he posted as Commissioner of the Kanpur Police, has been given a ticket from the Kannauj reserve constituency to realize.
BJP has won 73 of these 85 seats.
Four of them had defected to the Jamajwadi Party.
Of the remaining 69 winners of 2017, the party has maintained 56, or more than 80%.
The top caste ticket consisted mostly of Thakurs (15) and Brahmin (14) who jointly received 29 seats while three Punjabis and four from the Vaishya community also made wounds.
Among OBC, a maximum of 10 tickets had gone to Lodi, followed by seven people to Kurmis, one to Nishad and one to Yadav candidate.
Eleven other OBC included Maurya, Kushwaha and Shakya.
The party has also provided tickets to six Turncoat, including two of the Congress of Sonia Gandhi’s Home Turf Rae Bareli – Aditi Singh from Rae Bareli conscious and Rakesh Singh from Harchandpur.
Even though both of them switched from Congress recently, they had sided with BJP long enough.
Rakesh Dinesh Singh’s brother, in fact, was contested by Sonia in 2019 the selection of Lok Sabha.
Among those who came from the other parties were the face of the Brahmin BSP and the former Minister of Ramveer UPadhayay cabinet, Nitin Agrawal, former Minister and MP Naresh Agarwal, who turned loyalty from SP to join BJP, who also sat MLA from Sirsaganj on SP tickets and Antil Singh which is a BSP MLA from the purwa seat in Unnao.
Yadav is the patriarch of the Samajwadi Party, Mulayam Singh Yadav.
Upadhyaya, which is MLA sitting from the constituency of Sadabad on BSP tickets, has been derived from the same assembly chair.
In Kanpur, the Ministry of Cabinet Satish Mahana has managed to maintain his nomination from the Maharajpur seat while Nilima Katiyar State Minister from Kalyanpur, Mannu Kori and Ranvendra Singh ‘Dhunni’ also managed to get a nod for the contest.
Among the four delim chairs, Salona Kushwaha had been derived from Tilhar after sitting BJP Mla Roshan Lal Verma went to SP, along with Swami Prasad Maurya.
Likewise, in Bidhuna, Vinay Shakya was replaced by his daughter Riya, ending speculation that the Gupta Pramod, who joined BJP on Thursday, could be derived from there.
Gupta wins from Bidhuna on SP tickets in 2012.
Likewise, Vinod Kumar Awasthi has been reduced from Dharaura in the place of Bala Prasad Awasthi, and Rahul Sonkar from Bilhaur as a substitute for Bhagwati Prasad Sagar.
Both of them turned to SP, along with S P Maurya.
In the 4th list, BJP continues to focus on OBC, Dials, shows faith in sitting MLAS
