<span style="color: #222222;">The BJP has fielded Raghuraj Singh Shakya against Samajwadi Party leader Dimple Yadav for the Mainpuri Lok Sabha bypoll. The bypoll on this seat was necessitated following the demise of Samajwadi Party founder and MP Mulayam Singh Yadav.  <br />''<br />''The BJP also released the name of candidates for by-elections to two assembly seats in UP and one each seat in Rajasthan, Bihar and Chattisgarh.<br />''<br />''It has given tickets to Akash Saxena from Rampur and Rajkumar Saini from the Khatauli assembly seat in UP  while Kedar Prasad  Gupta will fight from Kurhnai assembly constituency in Bihar.</span><br />