Ten candidates of the Bharatiya Janata Party filed their nomination papers for the biennial polls to the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council on Monday.
They included Deputy Chief Minister Dinesh Sharma and former IAS officer Arvind Kumar Sharma.
All the 10 BJP candidates filed two sets of nominations before the returning officer.
Besides them, an independent candidate, Mahesh Chandra Sharma, also filed his nomination for the coming Council elections, Returning Officer BB Dubey said.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and his senior ministers were present during the filing of nominations.
Those who filed their nominations include BJP state unit president Swatantra Dev Singh, Lakshman Prasad Acharya, Kunwar Manvendra Singh, Govind Narayan Shukla, Salil Bishnoi, Ashwani Tyagi, Dharamveer Prajapati and Surendra Chaudhary.
If the nomination papers of the 13th candidate, Mahesh Chandra Sharma, are found in order, then polling will be held on January 28, otherwise the 12 candidates will be declared elected unopposed on January 21.
The polling is scheduled to take place on January 28 and the counting will be taken up an hour after the completion of the polls.
Monday was the last day for filing of nominations for the 12 Legislative Council seats, which will fall vacant on January 30.
The scrutiny of papers will be held on January 19 and the last date for withdrawal of nominations is January 21.
The BJP has said it will win 10 out of the 12 seats.
In the 403-member UP Legislative Assembly, the BJP has 310 MLAs, SP 49, BSP 18, Apna Dal (Sonelal) nine, Congress seven and SBSP four. There are three Independent MLAs while the RLD and the Nishad Party have one MLA each.
Of the 12 MLCs whose tenure is expiring, six are from the Samajwadi Party. They are Ramesh Yadav, Ahmed Hasan, Ashu Malik, Sahab Singh Saini, Ramjatan Rajbhar and Virendra Singh. The tenure of BSP’s Pradeep Jatav and Dharamveer Ashok is also coming to an end. Naseemuddin Siddiqui, who defected to Congress from the Bahujan Samaj Party, is also retiring.