Uttar Pradesh polls: On foot or tractor, 11 file nominations in Noida & Ghaziabad

NOIDA/GHAZIABAD: Amid tight security, six candidates of various parties in Noida and five in Ghaziabad filed their nomination papers on Monday.
For the Noida assembly seat, nominations were filed by Dhruv Agrawal of Liberal Party of India and Sunil Chaudhary of Samajwadi Party. From Dadri, National Aam Janseva Party’s Yunus and Amit Baisoya, an Independent, filed their papers.From Jewar, nominations were submitted by Rashtriya Lok Dal candidate Avtar Singh Bhadana and Bahujan Samaj Party’s Narendra Kumar.
Subhashwadi Bharatiya Samaj Party’s candidate, Manoj Kumar Sharma, filed his nomination from Muradnagar. Sitting BJP MLA Sunil Kumar Sharma and AAP’s Chhavi Yadav submitted their papers in Sahibabad, while Rashtriya Lok Dal candidate Sudesh Sharma filed nomination from Modinagar. Congress’s Sushant Goyal filed his papers from the Ghaziabad seat. Of these candidates, Sudesh Sharma is the only one from Ghaziabad who has criminal cases registered against him in the past. Sharma has been booked at the police stations in Bhojpur, Modinagar, Shamli and Muradnagar for allegedly violating the model code of conduct, rallying without permission in the municipal elections, for orchestrating a rail roko movement in 2016 and various other offences.
Among the Noida candidates who filed papers on Monday, four FIRs were registered against Chaudhary for staging demonstrations and unauthorised gathering in 2021. Bhadana was booked last year for violation of the model code of conduct. Instead of the usual sloganeering and fanfare that marks the filing of nominations, the exercise on Monday was rather peaceful because of the imposition of Section 144 CrPC amid rising Covid cases. Only two proposers were allowed to enter the nomination hall along with each candidate.