LUCKNOW: Seven ministers in the Yogi Adityanath cabinet who have not yet been elected to the state legislature will now seek election through the Vidhan Parishad.
Thirteen Vidhan Parishad seats are up for grabs, with elections scheduled for June 20. The BJP can safely send nine members to the Uttar Pradesh Assembly, while the Samajwadi Party (SP) may send four members.
Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Maurya (who retains his position despite losing the Assembly election), Bhupendra Chaudhary, Narendra Kashyap, J.P.S. Rathore, Jaswant Singh Saini, Danish Azad Ansari, and Daya Shankar Mishra Dayalu are among the BJP ministers who need to be elected to the Upper House.
Apart from these seven, the BJP has a long list of candidates for the remaining two seats, including veteran leader Shatrudha Prakash, who just joined the BJP from the Samajwadi Party. The Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party (SBSP) head Om Prakash Rajbhar is asking his share this time from the Samajwadi Party, which has a number of members retiring from the Vidhan Parishad next month.
Rajbhar is seeking a seat for his son Arvind Rajbhar, who was defeated in the Assembly elections. Akhilesh Yadav, the president of the SP, is also under pressure to name Krishna Patel, the leader of the Apna Dal (K), who lost the Assembly elections.
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