Ghaziabad, March 25 -- The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday announced that it was fielding its sitting Ghaziabad MLA Atul Garg as its candidate for the Ghaziabad Lok Sabha seat, dropping sitting MP and former chief of army staff General VK Singh (retired).

Other major parties, including the Congress and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), are yet to announce their candidates for the Ghaziabad parliamentary constituency.

The Ghaziabad constituency will go to polls on April 26. The results are set to be declared June 4.

Garg's name was in the BJP's fifth list of Lok Sabha candidates released late Sunday night after the party's central election committee decided on the names for the upcoming general elections. BJP leaders said this was t...