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Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya had contested from Sirathu assembly seat of Kaushambi in the 2022 assembly elections, but lost to Pallavi Patel of Samajwadi Party.
Uttar Pradesh (Uttar Pradesh) Now only the formality is left for the announcement of unopposed elections to the Legislative Council, as the same number of nominations have been filed for 13 seats till the last date of filing nominations on Thursday. Returning Officer B B Dubey told that the same number of nomination papers have been received for 13 vacancies of Upper House, in which BJP (BJP) K Nine and Samajwadi Party (Samajwadi Party) Includes four candidates. Dubey said the scrutiny of nomination papers would be held on June 10 and June 13 would be the last date for withdrawal of nominations, after which a formal announcement would be made.
Those who filed their nomination papers included Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya and former minister Swami Prasad Maurya, who quit the BJP and joined the Samajwadi Party just before the recent assembly elections. Nine BJP candidates on Thursday filed their nomination papers, a day after their names were announced by the BJP party office in New Delhi. These include, apart from Keshav Prasad Maurya, Chaudhary Bhupendra Singh, Dayashankar Mishra Dayalu, JPS Rathore, Jaswant Saini, Danish Azad Ansari, Banwari Lal Dohre and Mukesh Sharma.
BJP leaders filed nominations in the presence of CM Yogi
Due to the ill health of Minister of State Narendra Kashyap, his representative has filed nomination. BJP candidates filed their nominations in the presence of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and BJP state president Swatantra Dev Singh. Swami Prasad Maurya, Jasmir Ansari, former Karhal MLA Sobran Singh Yadav’s son Mukul Yadav, and Shahnawaz Khan, who is considered close to Azam Khan, filed nominations on Wednesday from the Samajwadi Party in the presence of SP chief Akhilesh Yadav. .
Who were among the leaders who filed nominations?
Among the BJP candidates who filed their nominations on Thursday, the tenure of Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya and Panchayati Raj Minister Chaudhary Bhupendra Singh as member of the Legislative Council ends on July 6, while Minister of State for Cooperation JPS Rathore, Minister of State for AYUSH Independent Charge Dayashankar Mishra Dayalu, Backward Classes Minister of State for Class Welfare with independent charge Narendra Kashyap, Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs and Industrial Development Jaswant Saini and Minister of State for Minority Welfare Danish Azad Ansari are not members of any House yet.
Keshav Prasad Maurya was defeated in the assembly elections
Of these, Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya had contested from Sirathu assembly seat of Kaushambi in the 2022 assembly elections, but lost to Pallavi Patel of the Samajwadi Party. Swami Prasad Maurya, the Samajwadi Party’s Legislative Council candidate, contested the Fazilnagar assembly elections in the recent assembly elections. He also contested from the seat on SP ticket, but lost.
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