BJP MLAs meet underway; Adityanath is frontrunner, says media
March 18, 2017  18:04
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Amid high speculation over the selection of the new Uttar Pradesh chief minister, the BJP Legislature Party meeting is underway in Lucknow.

According to several media reports, Yogi Adityanath, the MP from Gorakhpur, is leading the UP CM race.

Some media reports also claimed that Keshav Prasad Maurya, the state BJP chief and the MP from Phulpur, will be the deputy chief minister along with Professor Dinesh Sharma, the BJP national secretary and Lucknow mayor.

Earlier, Union minister Manoj Sinha, who is also in the race for the post had rubbished the media reports about him becoming the new CM.
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