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Uttar Pradesh: BJP announces names of candidates for MLC elections
The Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) National President JP Nadda gave his approval for the names of candidates to contest from five constituency seats in the Uttar Pradesh legislative council
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Voting for 27 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council seats underway
Voting for 27 seats coming under local authorities' constituencies in the biennial polls for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council commenced on Saturday. According to the office of the Uttar Pradesh chief electoral officer, there are 95 candidates in the fray. Polling will take place at 739 centres, and as many as 1,20,657 voters expected to exercise their franchise. Voting will be held for the following local authorities' constituency -- Moradabad-Bijnor, Rampur-Bareilly, Pilibhit-Shahjahanpur, Sitapur, Lucknow-Unnao, Rae Bareli, Pratapgarh, Sultanpur, Barabanki, Bahraich, Gonda, Faizabad, Basti-Siddharthnagar, Gorakhpur-Maharajganj, Deoria, Azamgarh-Mau, Ballia, Ghazipur, Jaunpur, Varanasi, Allahabad, Jhansi-Jalaun-Lalitpur, Kanpur-Fatehpur, Etawah-Farrukhabad, Agra-Firozabad, Meerut-Ghaziabad and Muzaffarnagar-Saharanpur. These seats are spread over 58 districts in the state. Voting began at 8 am and will continue till 4 pm. Counting will take place on April 12. Nine MLCs from
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Jitin Prasada, Nishad, 2 others administered oath in UP Legislative Council
Four new members of the UP Legislative Council were administered oath at a function on Wednesday
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Ten BJP candidates file nomination for UP legislative council polls
Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Dinesh Sharma and former IAS officer AK Sharma were among 10 BJP candidates
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Polling set to begin for 11 UP Legislative Council seats, results on Dec 3
Biennial election for 11 seats of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council will take place on Tuesday and the results declared on December 3, officials said
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BJP nominates 2 Muslim candidates for UP legislative council seats
Fields four SP, BSP turncoats for Vidhan Parishad seats
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