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Setback for Azam, EC rejects aides’ nominations for Rampur | India News – Times of India

BAREILLY: The Election Commission (EC) on Thursday rejected nomination papers of senior SP leader Azam Khan's close aides, Asim Raja and Abdul Salam who wanted to contest from Rampur.Raja and Salam had filed their papers as SP and independent candidates respectively, after the party declared Muhibullah Nadwi, an imam of a mosque in Delhi's Parliament Street, as its official candidate on the last day of poll nomination on Wednesday amid high drama.Muhibullah's papers were cleared even as about 12 candidates' nominations were cancelled by EC after scrutiny, said Rampur district magistrate Jogindra Singh."Eighteen nomination forms were submitted for the Rampur LS seat. Asim Raja failed to submit forms A and B which are provided by the party. Also, certain columns were left incomplete. He w...