Dinesh Sharma is BJP's mayoral candidate for Lucknow

LUCKNOW: The Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday announced that incumbent mayor Dinesh Sharma as its mayoral candidate for Lucknow. In addition to this, the party also announced names of three candidates for nagar nigams and 27 candidates for the posts of chairman of nagar palika parishads. An election committee, headed by state BJP president Laxmikant Bajpai approved the names of these candidates.
State BJP spokesperson Vijay Bahadur Pathak said that the party has so far announced the names of nine candidates for nagar nigams and 67 for nagar palika parishads. He said that Dinesh Sharma, former Lucknow mayor, has again been fielded as the party's mayoral candidate from Lucknow, while Harikant Ahluwalia and Ram Gopal Mohle will be contesting from Meerut and Varanasi respectively. He said that the party had already announced the names of Vina Agarwal from Moradabad, Jagatvir Singh Drona from Kanpur and Kiran Verma from Jhansi as its candidates for the post of mayors.