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BJP second list include Rajnath's son Pankaj for Noida, Rita Bahuguna from Lucknow Cantt.

BJP second list include Rajnath's son Pankaj for Noida, Rita Bahuguna from Lucknow Cantt.

New Delhi, Jan 22 (UNI) After delaying it for three days since the party's central election committee met and cleared the names, the BJP today released its second list of 155 candidates for the crucial Uttar Pradesh assembly polls, fielding among others Home Minister Rajnath Singh's son Pankaj Singh from Noida. The second list was announced today close on the heels, the Congress and Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party clinched the deal for a tie up for the battle - which now has turned triangular with the BSP and BJP also in the fray. The candidates names were finalised by the Central Election Committee of BJP at a meeting presided over by President Amit Shah on January 19. Among other members of the committee, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, party leader Ram Lal and senior ministers had attended the meeting. The BJP has till now declared 304 of the 403 candidates. In a major decision, brushing aside objections from a section of party workers, the party leadership decided to field former senior Congress leader and a turn-coat Rita Bahuguna from Lucknow Cantonment seat. BJP's co-in charge for West Bengal Siddharth Nath Singh, who once worked in BJP's media cell, has been fielded from Allahabad West. UNI DEVN SHK 2000

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