BJP denies ticket to Murli Manohar Joshi, Maneka-Varun seats swapped; Jaya Prada to fight Azam Khan

[pullquote]1. 85-year-old Joshi has been a Lok Sabha six times and a Rajya Sabha member twice

2. Jaya Prada will fight against Rampur, they will fight against Azam Khan of SP

3. Maneka Sultanpur and Varun fight against Pilibhit

4. BJP releases list of 39 candidates, pays 22 existing MPs[/pullquote]

New Delhi: The BJP, after finding LK Advani too old to continue in electoral politics, has denied re-nomination to Murli Manohar Joshi. Satyadev Pachauri has been nominated from Kanpur in the list of 39 candidates released on Tuesday.

In 2014, Joshi had vacated the Varanasi seat for Narendra Modi and won from Kanpur. Joshi, 85, is one of the founding members of BJP. He has been a Lok Sabha member six times — from 1977 to 2014.

While LK Advani had reportedly told the BJP leadership not to consider him for elections any more, a slip of paper went viral on social media this afternoon that claimed the party had asked MM Joshi to not ask for the ticket for Kanpur or any other seat. The slip, on which the message was type-written, was not a letterhead and it bore no signature or stamp.

In the new list of BJP, there are 29 more candidates from Uttar Pradesh. There are 10 candidates for Bengal.

Twenty-two current MPs have been given the tickets.

Of the 10 seats for which the party has declared candidates in Bengal, nine are new faces and is a repeat candidate.

In UP, Jaya Prada will fight Azam Khan in Rampur. She was nominated from Rampur within 5 hours of joining the BJP. She had joined the party at 1 PM on Tuesday.

Jaya Prada had won from Rampur on a Samajwadi Party ticket in 2004 and 2009. Her victory margin was very low in 2009, which she attributed to Azam Khan. Later, Jaya Prada left the Samajwadi Party with Amar Singh.

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BJP kicks out 5

The party has cut the ticket of five sitting MPs. These include Murli Manohar Joshi from Kanpur, Dr Nampal Singh from Rampur, Priyanka Singh Rawat from Barabanki, Ashok Dwai from Etawah and Bharat Singh from Ballia.

Seats of 3 changed

The seats of Varun Gandhi, Maneka Gandhi and Ram Shankar Katheria have been changed. Varun had won the last time from Sultanpur; he has been given ticket from Pilibhit. His mother Maneka had won last time from Pilibhit, she has been nominated from Sultanpur this time.

Ram Shankar, MP from Agra, has been given the ticket from Etawah. SP Singh Baghel is the candidate from Agra.

Uttar Pradesh seat allocation by BJP

Bengal seat allocation by BJP