Yogi Adityanath Files Papers For 1st State Polls

Friday, 4 February 2022newsdesk

Yogi Adityanath today filed his nomination from Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur, where he is contesting his first state election, with the BJP using the occasion to project a united front. Union Home Minister Amit Shah was by his side.

New Delhi, 04 February 2022

As per news report of NDTV, before taking his first formal step towards fighting the UP election, the five-time MP prayed at the Gorakhnath temple - where he remains head priest - and performed a havan. Gorakhpur in eastern Uttar Pradesh is Yogi Adityanath's stronghold, and from here he has won every parliamentary election he has contested. Amit Shah and several BJP leaders accompanied him in a huge show of strength by the party after it lost many significant backward caste leaders from eastern Uttar Pradesh to rival Akhilesh Yadav's Samajwadi Party. So far, Yogi Adityanath has only one known rival in the Gorakhpur contest - Bhim Army's Chandrashekhar Azad. The Samajwadi Party has yet to name its candidate opposite Yogi Adityanath.

Source - NDTV