Kanpur: With the start of preparations to contest the bye-polls of the coming state assembly, the BJP has entrusted its deputy chief minister Keshav Mauraya and the party vice-president Ranjana Upadhaya with the responsibility to see Govind Nagar seat here and decide over the candidature.
The party leaders aspiring to fight the bye election from this well-known seat, are trying their best to obtain the favour of the party's observers. They are claiming their respective claims.
This assembly constituency has fallen vacant after election of Satyadev Pacchauri as MP from here. There are several claimants for securing the ticket. As sources stated the party was taking into consideration each and every aspect before finalizing the candidate.
Prominent among those claimants are Surendra Maithani, Neeraj Chaturvedi, Manvendra Singh, Normal Tiwari, Ravindra Patni, Kamlawati Singh, Anand Rajpal, Dinesh Rai. It was also reported that Anup Pacchauri stands as a strong contender for the ticket. Let us wait & see till the final announcement.
