Ambedkar Nagar. The candidate was declared by the BJP top leadership in the Katehari Assembly by-election. The BJP has chosen former minister Dharamraj Nishad as its candidate. While the SP and BSP had already announced their candidates, their candidates have also filed nomination papers. While BJP’s declared candidate Dharamraj Nishad expressed gratitude to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP central leadership, state leadership and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. He said he will live up to the hope and confidence with which the BJP has made him the Katehri Assembly candidate. BJP state vice-president in-charge of the Katehri Assembly by-election Dr Dharmendra Singh said that due to the nomination of former minister Dharamraj Nishad as the BJP candidate, tremendous enthusiasm is being seen among the BJP workers of Katehri and the entire district. including BJP workers and the public. He said that the BJP government has done a historic job in making the policies of the BJP government and various schemes being implemented for poor families accessible to the common people. He said BJP candidates will win the Katehari Assembly elections with huge votes. BJP district president Trimbak Tiwari said clean image popular leader and former minister Dharamraj Nishad, a resident of Katehri assembly constituency, is the first choice of the public. This time the public will give a historic victory to the BJP candidate with a huge number of votes. He said that BJP candidates are undisputed and will always be involved in the happiness and pain of the people. He said this time the public will completely reject the SP’s family politics and embrace the nationalist ideology. BJP district media in-charge Balmiki Upadhyay said Deputy Chief Minister Brijesh Pathak will address the nomination meeting in Gopalpur, Katehari, on Friday at 11 am in support of BJP candidate Dharamraj Nishad .
He congratulated the BJP candidate.
MLC Dr Hariom Pandey, former MP Ritesh Pandey, former district president Kapil Dev Verma, Dr Mithilesh Tripathi, Dr Dhirendra Pratap Singh, Satpal Patel, former block chief Katehari on making former minister Dharamraj Nishad the BJP candidate in Katehari assembly by- election Ajay Singh Sipahi, Ram Prakash Yadav, Rama Shankar Singh, district Panchayat president Shyam Sundar Verma, former district Panchayat president Sudhir Singh Mintu, Bharti Singh, former MLA Triveni Ram, Anita Kamal, Sanju Devi , Jai Ram Vimal, former Legislative Assembly. Candidate Awadhesh, Block Chief Anil Verma Mausam, Dr Rana Veer Singh, Vidyawati Rajbhar, Dr Rana Randhir Singh, District Minister Vinay Pandey, Cooperative Bank Director Rajesh Singh Bablu etc. expressed their happiness and congratulated.
Dharamraj Nishad has been MLA from Katehri three times.
The BJP has gone for Dharamraj Nishad in the by-election to the Katehari assembly seat. Dharamraj Nishad has previously been MLA from Katehri assembly seat three times. Dharamraj Nishad first started his political career in 1996 by becoming MLA from Katehri on the BSP ticket. After this, Dharamraj was elected MLA from Katehari on the BSP ticket in 2002 and 2007 as well. In 2007, Mayawati made him a minister. In 2012, BSP contested him from the Shahganj assembly seat in Jaunpur but lost. Before the 2022 assembly elections, he left the BSP and joined the BJP and contested the BJP ticket from Akbarpur Legislative Assembly and lost. Apart from SC voters in Katehari Assembly constituency, he also has a good hold on general category voters.
