Yogi Adityanath, UP deputy CMs to file nomination for legislative council bypoll on Tuesday

Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and his two deputies will file nomination papers tomorrow for the bypolls to the vacant Legislative Council seats. [caption id=“attachment_3933213” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] File image of Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath. PTI[/caption] “They will file their nominations tomorrow,” newly appointed UP BJP chief Mahendra Nath Pandey told PTI in Lucknow on Monday. Tuesday is the last date for filing nominations. According to the Election Commission, scrutiny will be done on September 6, while the last date for the withdrawal of candidature is 8 September. Polling will be held on 15 September and counting of votes will be done the same day. Adityanath, who took over as the chief minister on 19 March, has to become a legislator within six months of assuming office and that deadline expires on 19 September. Besides Adityanath, deputy chief ministers Keshav Prasad Maurya and Dinesh Sharma, and ministers Swatantra Dev Singh and Mohsin Raza are not members of either of the two Houses of state legislature. All of them have to get elected to either the Assembly or the Legislative Council before September 19 in order to continue as ministers. Adityanath and Maurya are presently members of the Lok Sabha. Adityanath will become the third successive chief minister after Akhilesh Yadav (SP) and Mayawati (BSP), to opt for the Upper House. The four seats for which bypolls will be held on 15 September were vacated by MLCs Bukkal Nawab, Yashwant, Sarojini Agarwal and Ashok Bajpai - all from the Samajwadi Party. Another seat fell vacant when Thakur Jaiveer Singh, a former BSP MLC resigned from the party and joined BJP.