Rajya Sabha polls: Papers of Independent candidate rejected; BJP, SP nominees set to get elected unopposed

By PTI

LUCKNOW: The nomination of Independent candidate Mauni Falhari Bapu was rejected for the Rajya Sabha elections on Wednesday whereas papers of 11 BJP and Samajwadi Party candidates had been accepted, paving the best way for the unopposed election of nominees of the 2 events.

A press release from the workplace of Chief Electoral Officer right here stated that nomination of the Independent candidate Bapu was cancelled throughout scrutiny.

It, nonetheless, didn’t point out the rationale for the rejection.

With the rejection of the Independent candidate’s papers, 11 candidates, eight of the BJP and three from SP camp, are left within the fray for as many seats of Parliament falling vacant by July from the state.

June 3 is the final date for the withdrawal of nomination whereas June 10 is the ballot date if obligatory.

Those who submitted their papers from the ruling BJP are OBC Morcha nationwide president Okay Laxman, former state occasion chief Laxmikant Vajpayee, Mithilesh Kumar, Radha Mohan Das Aggarwal, Surendra Singh Nagar, Baburam Nishad, Darshana Singh and Sangeeta Yadav.

The Samajwadi Party has fielded Javed Ali Khan and supported Independent candidate Kapil Sibal and RLD chief Jayant Chaudhury Among the BJP candidates, Mithilesh Kumar is a former Lok Sabha MP from Shahjahanpur.

He was elected to the Lok Sabha in 2009 on a Samajwadi Party ticket.

He can be a two-time MLA from Shahjahanpur’s Powayan Assembly constituency, which he had received as soon as as an impartial and in a while the Samajwadi Party ticket.

Okay Laxman is the nationwide president of the BJP’s OBC Morcha.

He was additionally the previous president of BJP’s Telangana unit.

Radha Mohan Das Aggarwal, a former occasion MLA, had vacated the Gorakhpur Urban Assembly seat for Yogi Adityanath.

Laxmikant Vajpayee is a former state unit chief and Surendra Nagar is a sitting Rajya Sabha MP.

Bauburam Nishad is the chairman of UP Backward Classes Finance and Development Corporation.

With 273 MLAs within the Uttar Pradesh Assembly, the BJP-led alliance will simply be capable to get eight members elected to the Upper House of Parliament whereas the SP and its allies (RLD and SBSP), with a energy of 125 legislators, will be capable to make sure the victory of three candidates.

Uttar Pradesh sends 31 members to the Rajya Sabha.

The BJP has chosen its nominees maintaining in thoughts the social equation with an eye fixed on the 2024 General Election.