Uttar Pradesh Panchayat Election 2021: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has released a different list of 19 candidates for Uttar Pradesh (UP) District Panchayat Election 2021. Earlier, the party had released a list of candidates for Lucknow Zila Panchayat Chunav. The newest list also incorporates the name of Sangeeta Sengar, wife of former BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar who is a convict in the 2018 Unnao rape case.
On Monday, the Yogi Adityanath government had issued an order stating that not more than 5 individuals can campaign collectively for panchayat elections. The government also ordered that wearing masks will be compulsory when campaigning.
As per the Election Commission, the filing of nomination papers for numerous posts for the Panchayat Election has commenced on Wednesday. Candidates will have to stick to Covid-19 protocol when filing the nominations and even for the duration of the campaign. Separate teams of district administration and police officers have been set up to make sure that there no disturbances take location.
In Lucknow alone, there are 6218 posts of Gram Panchayat Members, 494 posts of Gram Panchayat Pradhan, 628 posts of Block Panchayat Member and 25 posts for District Panchayat Members. In total, the state has 826 improvement blocks and 58,194 Gram Sabhas. There are a total of 7,31,813 wards in the gram sabhas, 75,855 wards in kshetra/block panchayats and 30,051 wards in 75 Zila panchayats. According to the state government, 880 Gram Panchayats have been lowered in the final 5 years due to the expansion of urban bodies. While 59,074 village Pradhan had been elected in the 2016 elections, the upcoming poll will see only 58,194 village heads finding elected.
Below is the list of BJP candidates for UP Panchayat Election:
Bangarmau I Kailash Nath Nishad
Bangarmau II Mukesh Pal
Bangarmau III Yogendra Pratap Singh
Fatehpur 84 I Asish Kimar Kuril
Fatehpur 84 II Mahesh Chandra Dikshit Munna
Fatehpur 84 III Sangeeta Sengar
Safipur I Jaydevi Kuril
Safipur II Kamala Gautam
Safipur III Dilip Kumar alias Guddu Mishra
Sikandarpur Sarosi I Avinash Chandra alias Anand Awasthi
Sikandarpur Sarosi II Sarita Rajput
Sikandarpur Sarosi III Soni Ashok Shukla
Sikandarpur Sarosi IV Shivnandani Lodhi
Sikandarpur Karan I Pramod Kumar Rawat
Sikandarpur Karan II Chandra Bhushan Rawat
Sikandarpur Karan III Suresha Devi Gautam
Bighapur I Banshilal Lodhi
Bighapur II Sushma Kanaujia
Bighapur III Phulmati Yadav
UP Panchayat Election BJP Lucknow Candidate List
Chinhat Neetu Yadav
Biketi I Anita Lodhi
Biketi II Rampal Rawat
Biketi III Aarti Rawat
Biketi IV Asutosh Singh
Maal I Gyan Chandra
Maal II Hariom Raj
Maal III Ranjana Lahiri
Maal IV Ram Chandra Maurya,
Malihabad I Sunita Sharma,
Malihabad II Bhupendra Arkvanshi
Malihabad III Sunit Kanaujia
Kakori I Teji Ram
Kakori II Pooja Devi alias Kiran
Sarojini Nagar I Reena Chaudhary
Sarojini Nagar II Udit Kumar Yadav
Sarojini Nagar III Renu Singh
Mohanlalganj I Garima Anand
Mohanlalganj II Chandan Singh
Mohanlalganj III Jitendra Jaiswal
Mohanlalganj IV Amit Kumar Lodhi Chandan
Gosaiganj I Sangeeta Devi
Gosaiganj II Neetu Rawat
Gosaiganj III Pawan Kumar Sharma
Gosaiganj IV Aditya Mishra
UP Panchayat Elections will be held in 4 phases on April 15, 19, 26 and 29. Voting in Lucknow will be held on April 19. The counting of votes will take location on May 2.