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The BJP on Saturday named Bhavya Bishnoi, the 29-year-old son of party leader Kuldeep Bishnoi, as its candidate for the Adampur Assembly bypoll in Haryana. The party also fielded Aman Giri, 26, from Gola Goraknath seat of Lakhimpur Kheri district in Uttar Pradesh, and K Rajgopal Reddy from Munugode in Telangana for the November 3 bypolls. The counting of votes for the Assembly bypolls will take place on November 6.
Kuldeep Bishnoi, a senior Haryana politician, and Reddy were Congress MLAs from Adampur and Munugode, respectively, before they resigned to join the BJP. Aman Giri is the son of Arvind Giri, who was the BJP MLA from Gola Gokarannath and had died last month, necessitating the bypoll in the constituency.
Adampur is a Bishnoi stronghold and has been retained by the family for the past five decades.
“Heartfelt gratitude to all the top leadership of the party for making Bhavya Bishnoi the candidate of Bharatiya Janata Party in the Adampur by-election,” Kuldeep Bishnoi tweeted soon after the party announced his son’s candidature.
Bhavya Bishnoi had unsuccessfully contested the 2019 Lok Sabha polls on a Congress ticket from Hisar. He had also quit the Congress in August.
Aman Giri will be pitted against former MLA Vinay Tiwari, 52, the Samajwadi Party (SP) candidate, in the bypoll.
According to sources in the BJP, the party has fielded Aman in the hope of getting the benefit of the “sympathy factor”. Aman’s father Arvind Giri (65) was elected as MLA in the 2022 Assembly elections and earlier in 2017 elections as a BJP candidate. In the past, he was elected MLA on SP ticket for three terms in 1996, 2002 and 2007 from Haiderabad seat that was later renamed as Gola Gokarannath as part of delimitation. In 2012, he contested on Congress ticket but lost. Later, he joined the BJP.
With PTI inputs
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