The announcement was made soon after the time for withdrawal of nominations for 13 seats was over. (Representative ANI photo)
Of the elected candidates, nine were from the BJP and four from the Samajwadi Party. These included Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya and former state minister Swami Prasad Maurya, who had quit the BJP and joined the Samajwadi Party ahead of the UP assembly elections.
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All the 13 candidates who filed their nominations for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council elections were declared elected unopposed on Monday. Of the elected candidates, nine were from the BJP and four from the Samajwadi Party. These include Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya and former state minister Swami Prasad Maurya, who had quit the BJP and joined the Samajwadi Party ahead of the UP assembly elections.
The Returning Officer and Special Secretary of the Vidhan Sabha, BB Dubey gave information in this regard here. The announcement was made soon after the time for withdrawal of nominations for 13 seats was over.
Other BJP candidates declared elected unopposed were Chaudhary Bhupendra Singh, Dayashankar Mishra Dayalu, JPS Rathore, Jaswant Saini, Danish Azad Ansari, Banwari Lal Dohare, Mukesh Sharma and Narendra Kashyap. Besides Swami Prasad Maurya, Samajwadi Party’s Jasmir Ansari, Mukul Yadav and Shahnawaz Khan made it to the Legislative Council. Barring Mukesh Sharma and Banwari Lal Dohra, all other BJP candidates are ministers in the state government.
Keshav Prasad Maurya was required to be elected to either house of the state legislature to continue as the deputy chief minister of the state. He had lost the assembly elections from Sirathu earlier this year. Maurya and Panchayati Raj Minister Chaudhary Bhupendra Singh’s term as member of the Legislative Council was to end on 6 July.
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