Lucknow Mayor: There is bound to be a fight between the claimants for the ticket, now the seat is unreserved A to Z Counsel

Contenders race for the chair.
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It has not yet been decided who will fight with which party in the municipal elections. However, due to unreserved reservation for the post of Mayor, this time the number of contenders is sure to increase and there will be a fierce battle between them. In the last election, there was reservation for women and then 19 women contested the election. The contenders of the major parties who were pacified in the last election due to the seat being a woman, will also openly claim for the ticket this time. With the announcement of reservation for the post of mayor, the claimants have become active.

For the post of Mayor, BJP has maximum ticket claim among BJP, SP and Congress. The reason for this is that the seat has been held by the BJP for 15 years. The maximum number of councilors in 110 wards have also been winning from this party. If you look at the previous record, BJP’s late Dr. SC Rai and Dr. Dinesh Sharma were mayors for two consecutive terms. Last time the party fielded Samyukta Bhatia, who won the seat, for being a woman. SP fielded Meera Vardhan, Congress Prema Awasthi and BSP fielded Bulbul Godial.

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Main contenders for the post of mayor in major parties

B J P : The strongest claim from the BJP for the post of mayor is being considered of the current mayor Samyukta Bhatia. She has also openly talked about contesting for re-election. The name of MP representative of the capital and former IAS officer Diwakar Tripathi cropped up last time also before the reservation was issued. This time again the discussion has started regarding his name. Interestingly, the name of his brother and chairman of UP Remote Sensing Application Center Sudhakar Tripathi also figured in the news after his meeting with Rajnath Singh. Former Cantt MLA Suresh Tiwari, former corporator Govind Pandey, corporator Rajneesh Gupta, who contested from the central constituency this year, Sunil Mishra, son of former MLC late Raghavram Mishra, are also contesting. Four-time corporator Harsharan Lal Gupta is also contesting. Viraj Sagar Das, son of real estate businessman and former mayor Akhilesh Das, is also in the news for contesting elections from BJP.

Congress: Girish Mishra from this party, recently joined party big businessman Rajesh Kumar Jaiswal, State Congress Committee treasurer Shiv Pandey, State Congress general secretary RP Singh, former state Congress committee treasurer Mohd. Naeem’s name is running.

SP: Before the reservation was fixed, the SP had divided the candidates into three categories. In the first general category, in the second OBC and in the third the scheduled caste leaders were placed. The name of outgoing city president Sushil Dixit was in the general category. After not getting the ticket from the Cantt seat in the assembly elections, he has now nominated for the post of Mayor. At the same time, Meera Vardhan, who was the candidate for the post of mayor last time, is again staking her claim. The third name is that of Juhi Singh, national president of the party’s Mahila Morcha. Due to his proximity to Dimple Yadav and activism in the party, his claim is strong. Naveen Dhawan Bunty is also seeking ticket. Pramod Chaudhary’s names are running in the category of other backward classes along with national spokesperson Dr. Ashutosh Verma. Shilpi Chaudhary’s name is strong in the Scheduled Caste category. On the other hand, Praspa’s state general secretary Ajay Tripathi Munna is also seen active in the capital for the post of mayor.