LUCKNOW: The Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday announced the candidature of nine leaders, including seven ministers, for UP Legislative Council elections. Two others besides the ministers are Mukesh Sharma and Banwari Lal Dohre. Among the seven ministers are Keshav Prasad Maurya and Chaudhary Bhupendra Singh.
The other five ministers fielded for the upper house are cooperative minister JPS Rathore, Dayashankar Mishra 'Dayalu', Narendra Kashyap, Jaswant Saini and Danish Azad. They were inducted in the Yogi 2.0 cabinet but were not members of either of the two Houses of UP legislature. They all will make debut in the Upper House.