Samajwadi Party candidate Kanaklata Singh, daughter of former party leader Mohan Singh, filed nominations for one of the two seats of the Rajya Sabha going to bypolls in Uttar Pradesh on December 20.
Kanaklata, accompanied by CM Akhilesh Yadav and several Ministers, filed the nominations in two sets before the returning officer and Principal Secretary(Assembly) Pradeep Kumar Dubey on Monday.
Though Tuesday is the last date for filling nominations for both the seats but the ruling SP is yet to announce the name of their candidate for the second seat. Both the RS seats is likely to be annexed by the ruling Samajwadi Party as they have majority in the UP Assembly.
Returning officer and Principal Secretary of Uttar Pradesh assembly Pradeep Kumar Dubey said here that the by-election was necessitated due to the death of SP member Mohan Singh on September 22 last and the term of the seat will expire on July 4, 2016.