UP: Former bureaucrat amongst 10 BJP candidates for MLC polls

Ten BJP candidates for the January 28 elections to 12 Legislative Council seats filed their nomination papers on Monday on the final day for registering their candidacy.
An unbiased candidate additionally filed his nomination papers, making it 13 candidates for the 12 seats. The paperwork shall be scrutinised on Tuesday.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath accompanied the BJP candidates as they submitted their papers. Senior authorities ministers and celebration functionaries had been additionally current. The 10 candidates are Deputy Chief Minister Dinesh Sharma, former bureaucrat Arvind Kumar Sharma, BJP state president Swatantra Dev Singh, and senior leaders Laxman Prasad Acharya, Kunwar Manvendra Singh, Govind Narayan Shukla, Salil Bishnoi, Ashwani Tyagi, Dharamveer Prajapati and Surendra Chaudhary.
Sharma is taken into account to be near Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He joined the BJP final week after taking voluntary retirement from authorities service. According to sources within the celebration, he has been chosen for a giant function within the authorities.
The unbiased who filed his paperwork on Monday is Mahesh Chandra Sharma, whose nomination papers in earlier MLC polls had been rejected on varied grounds. But if they’re accepted this time through the scrutiny on Tuesday, it would result in elections for all 12 seats because the Samajwadi Party has fielded two candidates — veteran chief Ahmed Hassan and celebration spokesperson Rajendra Chaudhary. Unlike up to now, no political celebration has fielded extra candidates.
The elections are crucial because the time period of 12 Legislative Council members is ending on January 30.