The saffron party has also repeated its sitting MLA from Lucknow (East) Ashutosh Tandon 'Gopalji', the businessman son of senior party leader Lalji Tandon.
schools, has been given party ticket from Kairana.
The saffron party has also repeated its sitting MLA from Lucknow (East) Ashutosh Tandon 'Gopalji', the businessman son of senior party leader Lalji Tandon.
Gopalji had won the seat in a bye-election last time.
However, Union Minister Kalraj Misra's son Amit, who was seeking ticket from Lucknow (East), failed to get nomination.
Also in the BJP list is Prateek Bhushan, son of mafia don -turned Gonda MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh. Prateek, an MBA from Melbourne University, has got BJP ticket from Gonda.
The saffron party has not disappointed turncoat Swami Prasad Maurya fielding his son Utkarsh from Unchahar seat besides pitting Nilima Katiyar, the daughter of Prem lata Katiyar from Kalyanpur and Sunil Dutt Dwiedi, son of Brahm Dutt Dwiedi from Farrukhabad.
Congress has reposed faith in London-returned management graduate Aditi Singh, daughter of muscleman Akhilesh Singh, from his traditional Rae Bareli seat.
Though Akhilesh had won as an Independent, he had traditionally been associated with Congress and this time his daughter will be trying her luck as a Congress candidate.
32-year-old Tanuj Punia, a chemical engineer from IIT Roorkee will be making electoral debut from Zaidpur seat in Barabanki, the constituency nurtured by his retired bureaucrat father PL Punia.
For Samajwadi Party, Abdullah Azam (27), an M.Tech, is in fray from Swar Tanda in Rampur where his high profile father Azam Khan has considerable influence.
Likewise, Nitin Agarwal (34) will be seeking re-election from Hardoi seat. An MBA from Pune, he is the son of senior party leader Naresh Agarwal and has been a minister in the Akhilesh Yadav government.
BSP has made Abbas Ansari, a national level shooter and three-time national champion son of mafia-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari its candidate in Ghosi seat.
Abbas, who has also represented the country in international events, came to the BSP fold only recently when his father's Quami Ekta Dal (QED) merged with Mayawati's party.
(This article has not been edited by DNA's editorial team and is auto-generated from an agency feed.)
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