New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party is likely to announce the list of its Lok Sabha Candidates in the politically significant state of Uttar Pradesh for the upcoming parliamentary elections. In an arrangement similar to that of 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will contest from Varanasi, sources have revealed. Rajnath Singh will contest from Lucknow while Smriti Irani will challenge Rahul Gandhi again from Amethi. While speculations were going on over the name of senior party leader Murali Manohar Joshi this time, sources have revealed that the party may deny ticket to him.
 Sources have revealed that BJP is likely to deny tickets to at least 22 of its sitting MPs on the grounds of performance. Names of Sharad Tripathi from Sant Kabir Nagar, Harish Dwivedi from Basti, and Harinarain Rajbhar from Ghosi, can be dropped.

List of BJP leaders who may get Lok Sabha tickets from UP and who may not

BJP CEC Meet: The BJP's central election committee Tuesday met to deliberate upon the names of party's candidates in various states for the Lok Sabha elections. This was the second meeting of the BJP's CEC, which includes party chief Amit Shah and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The BJP had almost finalised its candidates for seven north eastern states, Bihar, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana in the last meeting and some more candidates are likely to be finalised in today's meeting, sources in the party said. Sources also said the party's CEC may also meet on March 20 to further discuss names of the candidates. BJP drops all 10 sitting MPs from Chhattisgarh, to field fresh LS candidates The party on Tuesday announced it will drop its all 10 incumbent MPs from Chhattisgarh and replace them with new faces in the Lok Sabha polls, a decision that comes in the wake of the party's drubbing in the recent assembly elections.