The Bharatiya Janata Party, on Saturday, announced six more candidates for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council polls.
The BJP has declared 10 candidates for 12 Legislative Council seats while two candidates of the Samajwadi Party have already filed their nominations on Friday.
The BJP, by announcing only 10 candidates, has cleared the decks for the unopposed election of all 12 candidates to the Legislative Council as only 12 nominations are likely to be filed against 12 seats.
BJP sources here said that all the 10 candidates will file their papers on Monday, the last day for filing of the nominations.
The six candidates announced on Saturday are Kunwar Manvendra Singh, Govind Narain Shukla, Salil Bishnoi, Ashwini Tyagi, Dr Dharmveer Prajapati and Surendra Choudhury. Among the 10 candidates, four are from OBCs, five upper castes and one from the Scheduled Castes.
On Thursday, the BJP had announced four candidates, repeating Deputy Chief Minister Dinesh Sharma, state BJP president Swatantra Dev Singh and Laxman Acharya and bureaucrat-turned-politician AK Sharma who joined the party a day earlier.
Meanwhile the Election Commission has issued guidelines to be followed during the election process. Every person will have to wear a face mask during all election-related activities and at the entry of the hall/room/premises used for election purposes. Thermal scanning of all persons shall be carried out and sanitiser will be made available at all locations.