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The biennial elections for 12 seats of the Assembly constituency are scheduled for January 22. A candidate needs minimum 31 first preference votes to win. The Congress, with 21 members in the Assembly, is short of 10 votes to win a seat.
On Friday, UP Congress Committee president Rita Bahuguna Joshi said names of five probable candidates, including outgoing member Ranjit Singh Judev, have been sent to the high command for its approval.
“The candidate chosen by the party will have to arrange the additional ten votes to ensure his or her victory,” Joshi said. “The Congress could win the seat only if 10 members of the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) support its candidate,” she added. The Congress leader, however, refused to elaborate on possible tie-up of the Congress with the RLD for the Council polls.
The upper house has 100 members, of whom 38 are elected from the state Assembly constituency, 36 from the local body’s constituency, eight each from the teachers’ and graduates’ constituency and 10 members are nominated by the Governor.
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