<p>Rampur (UP): The election office on Thursday rejected candidature of Asim Raja as Samajwadi Party's nominee from Rampur Lok Sabha seat on technical grounds.</p>.<p>Muhibullah Nadvi had also filed his papers as the SP candidate on Wednesday, when the party declared him its official candidate.</p>.<p>District Magistrate Jogender Singh said that Raja's nomination paper was rejected as some documents were not attached to it.</p>.Uttar Pradesh MP Ram Shiromani Verma expelled from BSP for anti-party activities.<p>Raja is considered close to senior SP leader and former minister Azam Khan.</p>.<p>He had unsuccessfully contested for the state assembly in a 2022 bypoll after Azam Khan was disqualified from the House, following a court verdict which sent him to three years in jail in a hate speech case.</p>.<p>Rampur Parliamentary seat saw a piquant situation for the SP as two persons claiming party's nominee filed nomination on the last day of nomination for the first phase of elections.</p>.<p> Rampur will go to polls on April 19.</p>.<p>Nadvi is the imam of Parliament Street Jama Masjid in Delhi, had also filed nomination as SP candidate from Rampur on Wednesday.</p>.<p>Raja had also claimed himself to be the official SP candidate but the party later declared Nadvi as its official candidate. </p>
<p>Rampur (UP): The election office on Thursday rejected candidature of Asim Raja as Samajwadi Party's nominee from Rampur Lok Sabha seat on technical grounds.</p>.<p>Muhibullah Nadvi had also filed his papers as the SP candidate on Wednesday, when the party declared him its official candidate.</p>.<p>District Magistrate Jogender Singh said that Raja's nomination paper was rejected as some documents were not attached to it.</p>.Uttar Pradesh MP Ram Shiromani Verma expelled from BSP for anti-party activities.<p>Raja is considered close to senior SP leader and former minister Azam Khan.</p>.<p>He had unsuccessfully contested for the state assembly in a 2022 bypoll after Azam Khan was disqualified from the House, following a court verdict which sent him to three years in jail in a hate speech case.</p>.<p>Rampur Parliamentary seat saw a piquant situation for the SP as two persons claiming party's nominee filed nomination on the last day of nomination for the first phase of elections.</p>.<p> Rampur will go to polls on April 19.</p>.<p>Nadvi is the imam of Parliament Street Jama Masjid in Delhi, had also filed nomination as SP candidate from Rampur on Wednesday.</p>.<p>Raja had also claimed himself to be the official SP candidate but the party later declared Nadvi as its official candidate. </p>