The victory of Sadhna Singh, daughter-in-law of late CM Veer Bahadur Singh, in Gorakhpur on Saturday
LUCKNOW: BJP-backed candidates are set to win unopposed district panchayat president elections in at least 12 districts, including Gorakhpur and Varanasi, after candidates backed by the opposition failed to file nominations or submit their nomination papers by the 3 pm deadline on Saturday. were rejected.
However, he will be officially declared the winner on June 29 – the last day for withdrawal of nominations – before the election scheduled for July 3. BJP supported candidates got cakewalk in Gorakhpur, Gonda, Balrampur, Shravasti, Ghaziabad, Chitrakoot, Moradabad, Jhansi. In Mau and Bulandshahr and Varanasi and Meerut, the trumps came out after the nominations of SP candidates were rejected.
In CM Yogi Adityanath’s ground Gorakhpur, BJP candidate Sadhna Singh, daughter-in-law of late Chief Minister Veer Bahadur Singh, is set to be elected unopposed as the district panchayat president after violent clashes between the SP candidate failed to file his nomination papers. Stayed. Protesters at the Collectorate Gate.
Varanasi saw a dramatic turn of events, with both sets of nomination papers of SP-backed candidate Chanda Yadav being rejected during scrutiny, paving the way for BJP’s Poonam Maurya to win the president’s post, with no rival. was not. Maurya had also filed two sets of papers, but one was found to be valid, while the other was discarded. BJP’s Gaurav Chaudhary was elected unopposed in Meerut after the nomination of the SP and RLD-backed candidate was canceled.
However, there was a hiccup for the BJP in Unnao, where party rebel Arun Singh filed his nomination as an independent. Though he preferred to call himself a BJP soldier while fighting SP candidate Malti Rawat, he was not deterred from filing his nomination. And this happened despite Shakun Singh being declared the official BJP-backed candidate. Earlier, her ticket was canceled following complaints by the Unnao rape victim about her relationship with Bangarmau MLA Kuldeep Sengar, who was sacked from the BJP after being convicted in a rape case.
Shakun Singh filed his nomination on Saturday, 48 hours after he was declared the official candidate by the BJP, but Arun Singh raised eyebrows after coming to the nomination center along with Neeraj Gupta, brother of Unnao MLA Pankaj Gupta. In another sign of rift in the Unnao unit of the BJP, a viral video shows Unnao MP Sakshi Maharaj greeting Arun Singh. Singh, a relative of Minister of State Raghavendra Pratap Singh, is a district panchayat member from Auras ward of Unnao.
Out of 51 Zilla Panchayat members in Unnao, only nine are affiliated with the BJP. SP has 19 members and BSP has three members and 20 are independents. At least 26 votes are needed to win the election. BJP is yet to issue a formal statement on Unnao development.
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