UP Legislative Council: 10 BJP, two SP candidates set to get elected unopposed

  • | Wednesday | 20th January, 2021

Lucknow: The picture of elections to 12 seats of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council has been made clear now with the unopposed election of 12 candidates, including 10 from the BJP, with the nomination paper of an independent nominee being rejected during scrutiny of papers on Tuesday. The nomination papers of independent Mahesh Chandra Sharma, who filed his papers on Monday, was rejected during scrutiny of papers, leaving 12 candidates left for as many seats for the biennial election.

Lucknow: The picture of elections to 12 seats of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council has been made clear now with the unopposed election of 12 candidates, including 10 from the BJP, with the nomination paper of an independent nominee being rejected during scrutiny of papers on Tuesday. The nomination papers of independent Mahesh Chandra Sharma, who filed his papers on Monday, was rejected during scrutiny of papers, leaving 12 candidates left for as many seats for the biennial election.

Sharma`s paper was rejected as it did not have proposers and also the receipt of payment of fees, Returning Officer BB Dubey said. Ten candidates of the BJP and two of the Samajwadi Party (SP) are now poised to get elected to the upper house unopposed. A formal announcement in this regard would be made on Thursday afternoon if there is no withdrawal of nomination. Meanwhile, as per the schedule for the election, names can be withdrawn till Thursday, January 21. The polling was scheduled to take place on January 28 and the counting soon after the completion of the polls. On the last date of filing of nomination papers on Monday, BJP candidates including Deputy Chief Minister Dinesh Sharma and former IAS AK Sharma had filed their papers in the presence of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and senior ministers.

Former Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Arvind Kumar Sharma had joined the BJP in Lucknow last week in the presence of state party chief Swantantra Dev Singh and UP deputy chief minister Dinesh Sharma. Others who filed their nominations include state unit BJP president Swatantra Dev Singh, Lakshman Prasad Acharya, Kunwar Manvendra Singh, Govind Narayan Shukla, Salil Bishnoi, Ashwani Tyagi, Dharamveer Prajapati and Surendra Chaudhary.


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