Lucknow: BJP allocating section Lion tickets for backwards even as it surprised by deploying CM Yogi AdityAnath from his chair, gorakhpur (urban) Candidates to be announced on Saturday.
Of these 107 seats, barring Gorakhpur (Urban) and Sirathu, the remaining 105 will go to polls in the first two phases.
As expected, the Deputy CM Keshav Maurya will compete from Sirathu in Kaushambi.
While Yogi, who has become a five-time MP from Gorakhpur, would oppose the election of the assembly for the first time, Maurya has won from Sirathu in 2012.
They will replace the sitting MLAs – RMD Agarwal and Sheetla Prasad.
Only 10 of the 107 candidates announced candidates for 57 of the 58 seats going to polls in the first phase, while the 48 names of the 55 constituencies in the second phase was announced.
Nominated for eight seats will be announced later, with some of them will go to Allied-Nishad Party and Apna Dal.
Of the 105 seats in the election to go to the first two phases, the BJP had won 86 in 2017.
However, two lying vacant since the death of incumbent, while three days ago.
Of the remaining 81, the party has maintained a 60 MLA sitting in the list, which is almost 75%.
Retention comes against the backdrop of speculation about the possibility of a large number of sitting MLA dropped.
Among the election runner-up in 2017, only four have been lowered again, while 13 is replaced.
Only 10 of the 107 candidates are women.
Party has 44 seats for OBC candidates.
Although the make-up commensurate with the voters, a large share is deemed significant in view of the BJP’s attempt to blunt the opposition claims about the exit of “backawards” of turmeric-folds with the Samajwadi Party which manages affect progress influential leaders Swami Prasad Maurya and Dharam Singh Saini.
Also, those who are at the receiving end in the pockets of farmers agitation-bags-bags Western upwards, has been keeping his faith in affected communities.
Sixteen of these tickets have gone to candidates jat who helped the party swept the region in a poll conducted after the 2017 communal riots.
Gujars, another important category in the area, has received seven tickets, each against six and five are given to Lodhs and Sainis.
Most of the big names West, including Suresh Ra-na of Thana Bhawan, Shrikant Sharma from Mathura, Sangeet Som of Sardhana, son Rajnath Singh Pankaj Singh of jewar, Umesh Malik from Budhana, Brijesh Singh of Deoband, Kapil Dev Agrawal from Muzaffarnagar, Anil Sharma of Shikarpur, Sanjay Sharma of Anoopshahar and Baldev Singh Aulakh of Bilaspur, has been contemplated.
Overall, 12 ministers have been cut.
The list also has a former governor of Uttarakhand and is now Vice President of BJP Baby Rani Maurya, a Dalit, has been lowered from Agra (Ru-RAL).
OBC, which form the largest chunk of voters, considered essential to win the election.
The BJP managed to win the non-OBC YADAV after 2014 to significantly expand its social bouquet.
His experiments paid and post party thumping victory in the assembly polls in 2017 and 2019 Lok Sabha Election of candidates in the first list is an extension of its outreach OBC, say observers.
OBC holy recognition does not come with a cost in the upper caste.
Party has also lowered the upper caste candidates in 43 election.
Thirteen nominations for the 19 seats reserved for Scheduled kastes have gone to Jatav which has become Staunch supporters of the BSP.
Among the upper castes, 16 tickets have been going to the Thakurs, 10 to Brahmins, 8 to vaishyas, 3 to Punjabis and two to kayas.
Interestingly, Kayasths’ve got an extra ticket compared to 2017.
Akash Saxena has been derived from Rampur City, in what was seen as a reward for a legal battle he has done against SP Strowman of the area Azam Khan and his family.
Three former members of parliament, including Bhartendu Kunwar Singh of Najibabad, Dr Yashwant of Nagina and Babu Ram Chaudhary of Fatehpur Sikri, have also been given a ticket.
All three had lost the Lok Sabha elections in 2019 when the BJP facing the front of the SP-BSP.
Former Head of State and Chairman of the BJP Registration Committee, LAXMIKAN BAJPAYE and LEGISLATORS VETERAN DR RMD Agarwal are two important omissions.
Bajpayee who lost Haji Rafiq Ansari of SP in 2017 has been replaced by Kamal Dutt Sharma.
Toi veteran leader told that he has opted out.
“I did not ask for a ticket for children or my wife like everyone else,” hesaid, adding that he had asked to find workers and he would support her.