New Delhi
The BJP today announced popular Bhojpuri actor Ravi Kishan as its nominee for Gorakhpur\u00a0 the high-profile constituency that the controversial Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath, has represented for five consecutive terms in the Lok Sabha before the saffron party lost it to the Samajwadi Party\u2019s joint candidate Praveen Nishad in the 2018 bypolls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nishad, who delivered an embarrassing blow to the BJP in\n the Chief Minister\u2019s \u201dgarh\u201d in the byelections last year but has now \njoined it, has been fielded from Sant Kabir Nagar, replacing the sitting\n MP Sharad Tripathi, who was recently seen beating a local party MLA \nwith shoes in full view of cameras.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While in the 2014 Lok Sabha \nelections, Adityanath won Gorakhpur by over three lakh votes, in the \nbyelections the patry candidate Upendra Dutt Shukla lost to Nishad with a\n narrow margin after the SP and the BSP came to an understanding to \nfield only one candidate to avoid division of votes there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The \nsaffron party had a stronghold on the constituency since the former head\n of the Gorakhnath Math, Adityanath\u2019s mentor Avaidyanath, won it on a \nBJP ticket in 1991.Adityanath, who had been winning there since 1998, \nvacated the seat after he was made the Chief Minister in 2017. The \nNishad community, towhich Praveen Nishad belongs, is the second largest \ndemographic group in Gorakhpur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Apart from Kishan and Nishad, the\n BJP has named Sangam Lal Gupta from Pratapgarh, Mukut Bihari from \nAmbedkar Nagar, Ramapati Ram Tripathi from Deoria, KP Singh from Jaunpur\n and Ramesh Bind from Bhadohi.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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