UP Election

UP Election

Sunday, January 8, 2012

BJP declares candidate list for Uttarkand and Punjab Election

BJP has declared 48 seats out 70 in the Uttarkand assembly election with 3 women, 9 from SC and 1 from ST and minority community.

Uttarakhand Chief Minister B C Khanduri - Kotdwar;  Ex-CM Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank - Doiwala; State Unit Chief Bishan Singh Chuphal, : Didihat; and Speaker Harbansh Kapoor from Dehradun Cantt. Prakash Pant (Pithoragarh), Trivendra Singh Rawat (Raipur), Matbar Singh Khandari (Rudraprayag), Madan Kaushik (Hardwar), Vijaya Barthwal (Yamkeshwar), Balwant Singh Bhoryal (Kapkot), and ex-minister Ajay Tamta (Someshwar-SC).
Sitting MLAs who are in the fray this time as well for the BJP are Harbhajan Singh Cheema (Kashipur), Surendra Jeena (Salt), Chandan Ram Das (Bageshwar-SC), Suresh Chand Jain (Roorkee) and Ganesh Joshi (Mussorie).

BJP also declared candidates for 20 of the 23 seats for Punjab Assembly Election. The rest of the seats in a total of 117 will be contested by its main ally Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD). The candidate announced today are 2 women while four belong to the Scheduled Caste. Satpal Gosain, - Ludhiana Central,  Madan Mohan Mittal - Anandpur Sahib.  Dinesh Singh (Sujanpur), Anil Joshi (Amritsar North), Chunni Lal Bhagat (Jalandhar West-SC), Manoranjan Kalia (Jalandhar Central), Krishna Dev Bhandari (Jalandhar North), Arunesh Shakker (Mukerian), Amarjit Singh Shahi (Dasuya), Tikshan Sood (Hoshiarpur), Sukhpal Singh Nanu (Firozpur City) and Raj Khurana (Rajpura). The candidates for the two remaining Assembly seats of Amritsar and Phagwara.

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