New Delhi: In view of the assembly elections in five states (UP Assembly Election 2022), the meeting of the Central Election Committee of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) began at the party’s central office on Thursday. The names of the candidates for Uttar Pradesh will be discussed in this meeting. According to information received from sources, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Union Minister and in-charge of Uttar Pradesh Dharmendra Pradhan, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya, State President Swatantra Dev Singh and other members of the Central Election Committee attended the meeting at the party headquarters. Happened.
Sources said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP President JP Nadda, Defense Minister Rajnath Singh, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari joined this meeting through digital medium. It is to be known that Nadda, Rajnath and Gadkari had been infected with the corona virus recently.
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It is noteworthy that before the meeting of the Central Election Committee, the round of meetings is going on in the BJP for the last two days. During the meetings held so far, Uttar Pradesh has been at the center of BJP’s discussions. While the party discussed the names of its potential candidates, it also tried to reach out to its allies.
According to information received from sources, on Wednesday, Apna Dal (S) leader Anupriya Patel discussed seat coordination with Keshav Prasad Maurya and Swatantra Dev Singh till late night, while Nishad Party President Sanjay Nishad spoke to his MP son. Discussed with Amit Shah with Praveen Nishad. Sources said that Anupriya Patel is demanding 20 seats but BJP is not ready for it.
According to sources, the BJP wants to contest on the same number of seats as the Apna Dal got in the last assembly elections. Apna Dal had got 11 seats under the alliance in the last assembly elections. The party had won nine seats. (agency)