All 13 candidates have been elected unopposed in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council elections. In this, 9 candidates are from BJP and four are from Samajwadi Party. In fact, elections were to be held on 13 seats of the UP Legislative Council. Only 13 candidates had filed their nominations. In such a situation, all 13 candidates have been elected unopposed as there is no additional candidate.
Certificates of election have been given to all the members of the Legislative Council who have been elected unopposed. Let us inform that June 13 was the last date for withdrawal of nominations by the candidates. The scrutiny of nomination papers was held on June 11. In such a situation, the announcement of the victory of all these 13 candidates was just a formality. At the same time, as soon as the time for withdrawal of nominations ended on June 13, all these 13 candidates were given victory certificates.
Elected members from BJP: 9 BJP candidates who were elected unopposed in the UP MLC elections, in addition to Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya in the Yogi government, Danish Azad Ansari, Dayashankar Mishra Dayalu, JPS Rathore, Narendra Kashyap, Jaswant Saini, Choudhary Bhupendra Singh, Mukesh Sharma and Banwari Lal Dohre.
Elected member from SP: Swami Prasad Maurya, who left the BJP before the UP assembly elections and joined SP, has also been elected unopposed as MLC. Let us inform that Swami Prasad Maurya had lost the election from Fazilnagar assembly seat of Kushinagar district in the last assembly elections. After which SP fielded him as MLC candidate.
Apart from this, Mukul Yadav, Jasmir Ansari and Shahnawaz Khan have also been elected to the Legislative Council from SP. Let us inform that Akhilesh Yadav had fielded Mukul Yadav, son of Sobran Singh Yadav, who left the Karhal seat, and Jasmir Ansari and Shahnawaz Khan, who are said to be close to Azam Khan. On which SP alliance partner SubhaSP and Mahan Dal protested. However, later Mahan Dal distanced itself from this alliance.