BJP Denies Circulating List of Candidates, Calls It 'Fake News'

The release, signed by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and party president Pankaj Chaudhary, said that for the past few days, certain news outlets, individuals and institutions have been continuously circulating the news of a purported list of 209 candidates being prepared and sent to the central leadership. The BJP has categorically denied this fake and false news. The advertisement clarifies that no such list has been prepared or sent to the central leadership by the Bharatiya Janata Party or the state leadership. The BJP has said that it is a disciplined and cadre-based political party, where a very well-organized, democratic and thorough organisational process of selection of candidates for the assembly or any other election has been laid down, which has not even begun at present. The BJP termed such misleading propaganda as a well-thought-out conspiracy by the office bearers. It appears that all such lists have not been prepared by the Bharatiya Janata Party or the state leadership, nor have they been sent to the central leadership.