The Bharatiya Janata Party is yet to announce its candidate. Dhananjay, meanwhile, has started preparations to contest as an Independent candidate. Earlier, it was said that he would be fielded by the Nishad Party and the BJP would support him. However, the BJP did not agree to Dhananjay’s candidature after which the Nishad Party also backed off. When contacted, Dhananjay said, “I am going to contest as an Independent candidate. The preparations are in full swing.”
He denied that he had sought a BJP ticket and said the Nishad Party had been trying to get him fielded as ruling party candidate. The mafia don-turned-politician had won 2002 Assembly elections from Rari seat in Jaunpur as an Independent candidate and retained the seat in 2007 on a JD(U) ticket. In 2009, he ensured victory of his father from the seat while he joined BSP and won parliamentary election from Jaunpur.

In 2017, Dhananjay, contested as a Nishad Party candidate but Parasnath Yadav Samajwadi Party won the seat while Dhananjay ranked second. Parasnath Yadav died in June this year and the Samajwadi Party has named his son, Lucky Yadav, as its candidate on the seat.

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The Samajwadi Party (SP), the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) are in an alliance in the state. “Leaders of the SP, BSP, RLD will tear each others’ clothes once results of the Lok Sabha polls are out on May 23,” Modi said at an election meeting.

The prime minister, who has been slamming the alliance as “opportunistic”, said, “The expiry date of the SP-BSP-RLD alliance is May 23…evening.” Modi, attacking the Congress, said that a “party which is not sure whether it will be in a position to get the post of leader of the opposition in Parliament…its leaders are getting garments stitched to take oath as prime minister.”

The Correspondent Bureau with inputs from agencies

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