BJP Denies Ticket To Party's UP Vice-President, Wife

BJP today announced candidates for all nine Lucknow seats after a long discussion. High-profile hopefuls from Lucknow - Mulayam Singh Yadav's daughter-in-law Aparna Yadav and BJP MP Rita Bahuguna Joshi's son Mayank Joshi - are not on the list. Former Enforcement Directorate officer Rajeshwar Singh, whose voluntary retirement was today accepted by the Centre has been given a ticket from the Sarojini Nagar assembly seat. We spoke to one of the hopefuls Dayashankar Singh, the BJP's UP vice president who was among the disappointed.