Patna: All the 11 candidates in the fray, including chief minister Nitish Kumar and his deputy Sushil Kumar Modi, are set to get elected unopposed to the state Legislative Council.

Voting was supposed to be held on April 26 but it is not required anymore as the number of seats is equal to the number of candidates. The JDU, RJD and BJP have fielded three candidates each and the Congress and Hindustan Awami Morcha Secular one each. Nitish Kumar (JDU), Rabri Devi (RJD) and Sushil Kumar Modi (BJP) are the most prominent faces.

Nomination papers were scrutinised on Tuesday and found to be error free. "We will wait till April 19, last date for withdrawing nomination papers, and if no one withdraws papers, the results will be announced the same day," Assembly secretary Ram Shreshtha Rai told The Telegraph.

The Assembly secretariat will wait till 3pm for candidates who wanted to withdraw their candidature and announce the results by 3.30pm.

A similar situation had emerged in Bihar last month when only six candidates had filed nomination papers for a similar number of Rajya Sabha seats.

Commenting on the ideal condition being set by political parties in Bihar, as they are not relying on cross-voting, as observed in such elections in several other states, a JDU leader, who preferred anonymity, said: "It shows that all the major political players in the state are not interested in poaching from other parties, at least for now."

"May be the leaders are waiting for the right time to poach from rival camps," the JDU leader said. "If at all it has to happen it would be done once elections are near."