Dr Ayub claimed that about 40 people, led by local Samajwadi Party leaders, abducted seven national and state-level office-bearers of the Peace Party at gun point on Tuesday night, a day before last date of filing nomination. He also alleged that goons abused Peace Party leaders, thrashed them and snatched nomination papers. He claimed that he was in Lucknow and after getting SOS call from Kannauj tried all night to contact director general of police, inspector general of police, district magistrate, Kannauj, and senior superintendent of police, Kannuaj, but to no avail.On Wednesday, Dr Ayub said that he raised the matter in the UP assembly. "But as soon as I started speaking, chief minister Akhilesh Yadav left the house without replying and other Samajwadi Party leaders created din in the house not allowing me to speak further," he said.Kannauj seat had fallen vacant after Akhilesh resigned to take over as chief minister in March earlier this year. Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav decided to field 'bahu' Dimple to keep the constituency within the family. Akhilesh had won from Kannauj and Ferozabad in 2009 Lok Sabha elections. Later, he retained Kannauj. Dimple was fielded for Ferozabad bypoll but was defeated by Congress's Raj Babbar. It came as a humiliation for Mulayam who, sources said, this time is taking no chances and wants Dimple to win with record margin or create history by getting elected unopposed. Besides Dimple, two independent candidates have filed nomination. If these two candidates withdraw their candidature or are disqualified in the scrutiny process, Dimple will be declared elected.Mulayam is said to be trying every trick to compensate for the Ferozabad loss. The Congress had announced not to contest byelection in view of new-found bonhomie with Mulayam, who has assured SP's support in presidential elections. The BSP, on the other hand, has also decided not contest by offering a bizzare explaination that "it will expose Samajwadi Party". The actual reason of BSP keeping out of fray is that it is not in a position to give a fight to SP in Kannauj.The Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) had earlier announced not to contest but on Wednesday took a U-turn and decided to field Jagdev Singh Yadav. However, Yadav could not file his nomination on time. He also accused Samajwadi Party workers of obstructing him from reaching the collectorate on time to file nomination. However, questions are being raised over BJP's intention because Jagdev is a panchayati level leader of the party who is in no way a match to Dimple. Political analyst described BJP's flip-flop as a 'face-saving' gesture as not fielding a candidate would have sent a wrong message to the cadre.Another candidate Prabhaat Pandey had also made allegations about being prevented from filing nomination by the SP goons.However, district magistrate and returning officer, Salva Kumari J, in her report to the chief election officer of Uttar Pradesh has given clean chit to the Samajwadi Party. According to sources, in her report, the officer said that nomination of all the candidates who turned up on time were accepted. Regarding complaints of Peace Party, Prabaat Pandey and BJP, the officer said that complainants did not report the matter to the police and also could not produce any evidence when asked to substantiate their allegations.