In Majwa, CM Yogi to launch projects, check poll prep today

Varanasi: Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will spend over seven hours in Mirzapur on Monday and meet party workers to review Bhartiya Janata Party's preparations for the forthcoming Majhwa assembly bypoll.
He will inaugurate projects and lay foundation of new ones after inaugurating an employment fair in Gopalpur.
Talking to TOI on Sunday, BJP Kashi region unit president Dilip Patel said the CM would reach Gopalpur area in Mirzapur around noon.After inaugurating the employment fair, distributing loans and tablets among beneficiaries of different schemes and inaugurating projects and laying foundation of new projects for the district, Yogi will address a public meeting.
The CM will next hold a meeting with public representatives and BJP cadres from Majhwa assembly area.
Regarding the possibility of fielding a candidate by BJP from this seat in the forthcoming by-election, Patel said, "Neither have the dates of the by-poll been announced by the election commission, nor has the BJP-led alliance decided whether the candidate for this seat would be from BJP or from an alliance partner. But, being the senior alliance partner, BJP is going all out in preparation to retain the seat, which was won by alliance partner Nishad Party's Vinod Kumar Bind."
Majhwa assembly seat got vacant after Bind was fielded by BJP-led NDA from Bhadohi Lok Sabha seat in 2024 parliamentary election and he emerged victorious.
Majhwan Assembly constituency, which had come into existence in 1960, has been a battleground for many prominent figures, including former minister and Congress stalwart late Lokpati Tripathi, who was also elected as an MLA from here in 1980 and 1985.
The Brahmin and Bind communities have significant influence in the area. For three consecutive terms, BSP's Ramesh Bind held the seat, before BJP's Suchismita Bind defeated him in 2017. In 2022, BJP had spared this seat for the alliance partner's candidate.