Lucknow

Nomination papers of all 13 candidates to be in order during the scrutiny for biennial polls

PNS

Nomination papers of all 13 candidates, 10 of the BJP and one each of Apna Dal, Samajwadi Party and BSP, for the 13 seats of legislative Council were found to be in order during the scrutiny for biennial polls on Tuesday. Returning Officer, Ashok Choube said in lucknow on Tuesday that all nomination papers were found in order. He said that as there would be no elections, candidates would be declared elected unopposed at 3 pm on April 19, after the expiry of the last date of withdrawals. The BJP candidates in the fray are UP ministers Mahendra Singh and Mohsin Raza, Vijay Bahadur Pathak, Sarojni Agarwal, Ashok Kataria, Vidya Sagar Sonkar, Jaiveer Singh, Yashwant Singh, Ashok Dhawan and Bukkal Nawab. Besides, the BJP has supported Apna Dal candidate and Union minister Anupriya Patel’s husband Ashish Singh Patel as its eleventh candidate. Samajwadi Party candidate and state unit chief Naresh Uttam and BSP’s  B R Ambedkar are the other two candidates from the opposition. The BSP candidate had contested the biennial Rajya Sabha polls as a joint opposition candidate last month but lost to BJP member Anil Agarwal.