Lucknow, May 24 -- The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Central Election Committee has approved the names of five candidates for upcoming elections to the Graduate and Teacher constituencies in the Legislative Council of Uttar Pradesh.

Party National General Secretary and Headquarters Incharge Arun Singh announced the list of candidates in a press release today.

The BJP has fielded candidates for a total of 5 seats. Avneesh Kumar Singh has been fielded from the Lucknow Graduate Constituency while Dr. Manvendra Pratap Singh has been fielded from the Agra Graduate Constituency.

Dr Hari Singh Dhillon will be the BJP candidate from the Bareilly-Moradabad Teacher Constituency, Umesh Dwivedi has been announced from the Lucknow Teacher Constituency...