Rozina of JD(U) set to be MLC

PATNA: Rozina Nazish, the NDA candidate for the byelection to lone vacant seat in the Bihar Legislative Council, is all set to enter the state’s upper house, as no other candidate except her filed nomination papers even on the last day on Wednesday.
“Only Rozina Nazish filed her nomination papers as the JD(U) candidate. No other candidate turned up to file papers for the byelection throughout the nominations process,” returning officer-cum-Patna divisional commissioner Sanjay Kumar Agarwal told TOI on Wednesday.
Agarwal said scrutiny of nomination papers would be held on September 23.September 27 is the last date for withdrawal of candidature. “If the nomination papers filed by Nazish are found valid during the scrutiny and she does not withdraw her candidature till September 27, she would be declared ‘elected unopposed’ after 3pm on Monday,” Agarwal said.
Nazish is the widow of former JD(U) MLC Tanweer Akhtar. Accompanied by CM Nitish Kumar and other important leaders of all the four constituents of the NDA in Bihar, she submitted her papers to Agarwal.
Deputy CMs Tarkishore Prasad and Renu Devi (both from BJP), BJP state president Sanjay Kumar Jaiswal, former CM and HAM(S) president Jitan Ram Majhi, Vikassheel Insaan Party chief and minister Mukesh Sahani, education minister Vijay Kumar Choudhary and build construction minister Ashok Choudhary were also present on the occasion.
Talking to reporters, Nitish said, “You all are aware that our MLC Tanweer Akhtar died of Covid-19 a few months ago. We decided to make his wife Rozina Nazish as the NDA candidate for the vacant council seat.”
Tanweer was also the in-charge of JD(U) minority cell.