Dream of becoming MLA crushed in Gopalganj, 20 candidates including AAP's Satyendra Patel will not be able to contest elections - gopalganj AAP candidate Satyendra Patel and 20 nominations rejected in gopalganj

Updated: Sat, 18 Oct 2025 18:21 (IST) Many candidates who dream of contesting the assembly election in Gopalganj got a shock. The nomination papers of 20 candidates, including Aam Aadmi Party’s Satyendra Patel, were cancelled. This action was taken due to lack of documents and technical errors. The candidates expressed disappointment and sought intervention from the Election Commission. The Commission ensured transparency. Nominations of 20 candidates were canceled in Gopalganj assembly elections. Jagran Correspondent, Gopalganj. The nomination papers filed for six seats in the district for the Bihar Assembly elections were scrutinized on Saturday. Meanwhile, a total of 20 nomination papers filed from five out of six assembly seats Baikunthpur, Barauli, Kuchaykot, Bhore Surakshit and Hathua Vis constituency have been cancelled. All the nominations of Gopalganj constituency were found correct. So now 52 nominations have been accepted for six seats in the district. Remove advertisement Read-only news According to the information, the examination of nomination documents began on Saturday from 11:00 in the relevant election officials’ offices. Meanwhile, 9 nominations filed by the Baikunthpur assembly constituency were canceled and seven nominations were accepted. 08 nominations submitted from Barauli Vis area were canceled and 10 nominations were accepted. At the same time, only one nomination from Kuchaikot constituency was canceled and seven nominations were accepted. No nomination was canceled from the Gopalganj assembly constituency and all 12 nominations were accepted. Similarly, one nomination was canceled and six were accepted from Bhore reserved constituency and one nomination was canceled and 10 were accepted from Hathua constituency. Scrutiny of nomination papers was conducted under the supervision of general observers deputed by the Election Commission of India for each Assembly constituency. The examination of nomination papers started at around 11:00 in the office room of the respective election officers of the assembly constituencies. One by one, each nomination paper was thoroughly scrutinized. The candidates concerned or their proposers remained present during the examination of nomination papers. There was a lot of activity in the entire Collectorate complex on Saturday. Those whose nominations were accepted looked happy and those whose nominations were rejected looked sad. Their nominations were canceled from the Baikunthpur constituency. Nominations of Kanhaiya Ram of People’s Party of India, Manjeet Kumar Singh of All India Forward Bloc, independent Rajeev Prasad, Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party’s Bhairav ​​Singh, AAP Party’s Omprakash Rai, Bhagidari Party’s Balbir Kumar Pandit, Bharatiya A Rektha Party, Bharatiya A Rektha Party Janata Party’s Madan Rai and Azad Samaj Party’s Manoj Kumar Yadav were cancelled. Similarly, nominations of AAP’s Satyendra Kumar Patel, Rashtriya Sab Janshakti Party’s Pramod Kumar, independent Ramesh Kumar Prasad, Dharmendra Kumar Gupta, Mukesh Pandit, Ravindra Narayan Srivastava, Rajendra Prasad and Irshad Ali were canceled from the constituency. The nomination of Mrityunjay Kumar Tiwari, the only independent candidate from Kuchayakot, has been cancelled. Similarly, the nomination of Jitendra Paswan, who filed nomination in two sets from Bhore reserved constituency, was canceled due to the withdrawal of his election symbol by the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation. The nomination of Dalit Vikas Party (Bharat) candidate Shamim Ansari from Hathua assembly constituency was rejected due to lack of three proposers.