GHAZIABAD: A total of 73 candidates are in the fray in the five assembly constituencies of Ghaziabad that go to polls on February 10.
The maximum number of 18 nominations have been filed from Sahibabad and Ghaziabad seats each. In Muradnagar, 16 candidates are pitted against each other, followed by Loni where 13 candidates are in the fray. There are eight candidates from the Modinagar assembly seat.
With the nomination process coming to an end on Friday, now the scrutiny of the nominations would continue till Monday. The last date for the withdrawal of candidature is January 27.
On Friday, some 31 candidates, including two Congress candidates, filed their nominations in the district alone. Nine candidates filed their nominations from Ghaziabad and Sahibabad assembly seats each, followed by six in Muradnagar, four in Loni and three in Modinagar seats.
While the BJP has fielded all its five sitting MLAs from their respective seats, AAP has fielded candidates from all the five seats for the first time in UP assembly polls.
Congress has given tickets to long-time party workers on all the five seats. Among them are two candidates — Sangeeta Tyagi, wife of deceased party spokesperson Rajiv Tyagi, and Neeraj Kumari, national coordinator of the party’s backward class department.
All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen, which has announced to contest from 100 seats in the UP polls, has fielded candidates from Loni and Sahibabad seats. There are 21 independents and nearly 25 candidates from smaller parties also in the poll fray.
