Varanasi: For zila panchayat chairman election in Mau district only Bhartiya Janata Party candidate Manoj Rai filed his nomination while this contest in Jaunpur turned interesting with the filing of nomination by five candidates including muscleman Dhananjay Singh’s wife.
By the end of the hours of filing nomination at 3 pm only BJPs Manoj Rai reached the venue for filing papers in collectorate in Mau district.
As no other candidate filed papers, the supporters of Rai and BJP indulged in celebration as it paved the way for winning the seat unopposed.
However, the Samajwadi Partys Mau district unit president Dharm Prakash Yadav convened a press conference in afternoon and alleged that party’s candidate Ramnagina Yadav had been kidnapped by the ruling party leaders to stop him from filing nomination.
An interesting battle field became visible in Jaunpur with the end of nomination filing process.
BJP has spared this seat for alliance partner Apna Dal (Sonelal) and two -Rita Patel and Sunita Verma filed their papers as party candidate.
SPs Nishi Yadav and one Nilam Singh also filed their papers.
Apart from them Dhananjay’s wife Shrikala Reddy also filed her paper.
In Ghazipur, BJPs Sapna Singh, SPs Kusum Lata and an independent Rekha Bhatt filed their papers.
BJPs Raju Kanojia and SPs Asha Devi Gautam filed their papers for zila panchayat chairman election in Mirzapur.
In Ballia, Anand Chawdhary and Supriya Chawdhary filed their papers as SP and BJP candidates respectively.
Former minister Durga Prasad Yadav’s son Vijay Yadav filed his nomination as SP candidate for Azamgarh zila panchayat chairman seat while Sanjay Nishad filed his papers as BJP candidate.