Kanpur: Returning officer, Vijay Vishwas Pant, during scrutiny, rejected candidature of as many as 13 contestants for Kanpur Nagar parliamentary constituency on Wednesday.
At present 14 contestants are in the fray but the final position will be clear after withdrawal of nominations on April 12. It may be mentioned that around 27 contestants had filed their nomination papers for Kanpur Nagar parliamentary seat.
According to returning officer, Vijay Vishwas Pant, who is also district magistrate of Kanpur Nagar, the candidatures of most of the contestants were rejected on technical grounds. He said the candidature of Raju Saroj was rejected as he had not attained the required age for contesting the election. He mentioned his age as of 18 years whereas for contesting a parliamentary election one should have attained 25 years of age.
The candidates whose nomination papers were rejected on technical grounds are Deepak Kumar Savita for not removing objections, Jasbeer Gaur for submitting incomplete nomination form and failing to submit Form 26 (affidavit ), Akhilesh Kumar Mishra, Rajiv Mishra, Pramod Kumar Verma because their proposers belong to other constituencies and Dhirendra Kumar Gupta as the details of his proposers did not match.
The nomination of Chandan Dikshit and Pramod Mishra were rejected because their proposers belong to other constituencies). The contestants whose nominations have been accepted and can contest elections until they withdrew themselves from the election are: Sriprakash Jaiswal (Congress), Satyadeo Pachauri (BJP), Ram Kumar (SP-BSP combine), Alok Kumar (Sabhijan Party), Balbir Singh Chandel (Shiv Sena), Mukti Yadav (Bharatiya Rashtriya Morcha), Dilshad Ahmad (Bhartiya Samta Party) Shivam Kushwaha (Azad Bharat Party (Democratic), Triveni Narayan Jaiswal (Adhunik Bharat Party), Reena alias Renu (Saaf Party), Poonam Shukla (Bharatiya Shakti Chetna Party), Chandrabhan Sankhwar (Rashtriya Janmat Party), Javed Mohd Khan (Indpendent) and Ram Gopal Uttam (Arjak Adhikar Dal).
Meanwhile, the returning officer of Akbarpur parliamentary seat rejected nomination papers of as many as 21 contestants of Akbarpur parliamentary seat after scrutiny on Wednesday.
At present, 21 contestants are in the fray. The final postion would be clear on April 12 after withdrawal of nominations by the candidates.
According to the returning officer, the nomination papers were mainly rejected on technical groundas.