The BJP released a list of candidates for 29 seats in Uttar Pradesh and 10 seats in West Bengal this evening. In this list released by BJP, Union Minister Maneka Gandhi has been given ticket from his son Varun Gandhi's seat from Sultanpur, while Varun Gandhi has been fielded from Maneka Gandhi's seat Pilibhit.
Apart from these, Jaya Prada has been given an opportunity to contest against Samajwadi Party candidate Azam Khan from Rampur seat.
Rampur - Jaya Prada
Pilibhit - Varun Gandhi
Dhaurah-Rekha Verma
Sultanpur-Maneka Gandhi
Farrukhabad-Mukesh Rajput
Etawah-Rama Shankar Katheria
Kannauj - Subrat Pathak
Kanpur-Satyadev Pachauri
Akbarpur - Devendra Singh Bhole
Jalaun-Bhanu Pratap Verma
Hamirpur - Pushpendra Singh Chandel
Fatehpur - Sadhvi Niranjan
Kaushambi - Vinod Sonkar
Allahabad - Rita Bahuguna Joshi
Barabanki - Upendra Rawat
Faizabad-Lallu Singh
Bahraich - Akshayvat Red Gaur
Kaiserganj - Brijbhushan Sharan Singh
Shravasti - Dedan Mishra
Gonda- Kirtivardhan Singh
Dumariaganj - Jagdambika Pal
Basti- Harish Dwivedi
Maharajganj - Pankaj Chaudhary
Kushinagar-Vijay Dubey
Bansgaon-kamlesh Paswan
Salempur-Ravindra Kushwaha
Ballia-Virendra Singh
Ghazipur- Manoj Sinha
Chandauli- Mahendra Nath Pandey
10 candidates in West Bengal are
Baharampur - Krishna Arya
Murshidabad - Humayun Kabir
Bengaon-shantanu thakur
Diamond Harbor - Nilanjan Roy
Howrah-Rantidev Sengupta
Uluberia - Joey Banerjee
Kanti-Debashish Samant
Bankura - Subhas Sarkar
Bolpur - Ram Prasad Das
The seat of Manoj Sinha, another big name of UP has also been announced. Manoj Sinha has been nominated from Ghazipur this time. This list also includes Rita Bahuguna Joshi and BJP state president Mahendra Nath Pandey. Rita Bahuguna Joshi has been dropped from Allahabad for contesting Lok Sabha elections