BJP Announces 1st List Of Candidates For UP Polls

The BJP released its first list of candidates for the Uttar Pradesh election. Yogi Adityanath will fight the polls from stronghold Gorakhpur, not Ayodhya. There was speculation earlier that Yogi Adityanath - who has never stood in an Assembly election before - would contest from either Ayodhya or Mathura. Is Gorakhpur really a safe option? In today's list, the BJP also named candidates for 105 other seats, of which it won 83 in 2017. The winning MLAs from 63 of these seats have been retained. Only 10 women candidates have been named by the BJP.