With two major national political parties – Congress and the Bharatiya Janta Party, still not declared their candidates, three nominations, including one for the Mainpuri, lok Sabha elections have been filed so far for 11 Assembly and one lok Sabha seat by-elections to be held on September 13.
Samajwadi Party candidate, Taj Pratap Singh filed his nominations from Mainpuri lok Sabha seat on Friday. Tej Pratap is the grandson of Mulayam Singh Yadav, who left the seat after he was elected from both Mainpuri and Azamgarh Parliamentary constituencies. He is the only candidate who had filed the nominations from the lok Sabha so far.
According to state election officer, besides Taj Pratap, SP candidate Kaptan Singh also filed his nominations from Charkhari Assembly seat in Mahoba district. On Thursday, an independent filed nominations from lucknow east Assembly seat. BJP and Congress are yet to announce their candidates for the by-elections while BSP was not contesting these elections. August 27 is the last date for the filing of the nominations. The Assembly by-elections were held as the members were elected to the lok Sabha.