This story is from February 20, 2019

Will ex-UPPCL MD be SP-BSP alliance pick for Gonda?

Mishra, who belongs to Gonda district, served in key positions in both Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party regimes.
Will ex-UPPCL MD be SP-BSP alliance pick for Gonda?
Chief minister Akhilesh Yadav releases the book `Sifar se Shikhar tak' written by UPPCL MD AP Mishra on Thursday
LUCKNOW: Former chairman and managing director of Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation, (UPPCL) AP Mishra is likely to be the SP-BSP alliance candidate from Gonda parliamentary constituency, challenging BJP's Kirti Vardhan Singh, the incumbent MP. Mishra retired about two years ago.
Mishra, who belongs to Gonda district, served in key positions in both Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party regimes.
Sources said Mishra has already begun campaigning in Gonda, where as an engineer he has been involved in development works by rebuilding the dilapidated school where he had studied.

Despite being dominated by Brahmins, this constituency has not seen a Brahmin MP for long and this is what the SP leadership maybe banking on in considering Mishra as a probable candidate from Gonda from where former Union minister and Congress leader Beni Prasad Verma had won in 2009. Verma has now returned to Samajwadi Party and is a Rajya Sabha member.
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