BJP has completed its candidate list for the upcoming Legislative Council elections set for October 23 (Representative image)
LUCKNOW: Signalling a blend of continuity and organisational outreach ahead of the crucial 2027 Assembly elections, BJP on Tuesday announced candidates for the remaining six of the 11 Legislative Council seats from graduates’ and teachers’ constituencies that go to the polls on Octoober 23. Earlier, on May 24, the party had decided to retain Awanish Kumar Singh (Lucknow Graduates’), Manvendra Pratap Singh (Agra Graduates’), Hari Singh Dhillon (Bareilly-Moradabad Teachers’), Umesh Dwivedi (Lucknow Teachers’) and Shrichand Sharma (Meerut Teachers’). As per the list released by the party, Kedar Nath Singh has been fielded from the Varanasi Graduates’ constituency and Ashok Kumar Rathore from Allahabad-Jhansi Graduates’, while BJP has retained Dinesh Goel from the Meerut Graduates’ seat. List released by the party In the teachers’ segment, the party has nominated Dr Pramod Mishra from Varanasi Teachers’ and Hari Kishore Tiwari from Agra Teachers’.
Dhruv Tripathi has been re-nominated from the politically significant Gorakhpur-Faizabad Teachers’ constituency. Graduate and teacher constituencies occupy a distinctive space in Uttar Pradesh’s political landscape, with voters drawn not from the general electorate but from registered graduates and teachers.
