Lok Sabha elections 2024: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) dropped its Kaiserganj sitting Member of Parliament (MP) Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, who has been accused of sexual harassment by women wrestlers, said sources to India TV.
BJP may give Lok Sabha poll ticket to Brij Bhushan's younger son Karan Bhushan Singh from Kaiserganj seat.
Earlier, Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh blamed the media over the delay in the announcement of his name as the BJP candidate from the Lok Sabha seat. Speaking to media, Singh said, "The worry of the ticket is that of mine. You (media) people need not worry. The announcement of my candidature is getting delayed because of you people."
The BJP is yet to declare its candidate from Kaiserganj where polling will be held in the fifth phase of Lok Sabha elections on May 20 (Monday).
2019 poll results
In the 2019 election, Brij Bhushan secured 5,81,358 votes. Chandradev Ram Yadav from BSP got 3,19,757 while Congress candidate Vinay Kumar Pandey got 3,7132 votes.
BSP candidate on Kaiserganj seat
The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) has today (May 2) declared Narendra Pandey as its candidate for the Kaiserganj Lok Sabha seat. So far the BSP has announced around 50 candidates in Uttar Pradesh.
Voting for phases one and two have been completed and the third phase is on May 7.
To another question, the former Wrestling Federation of India chief said that meeting Muslims and visiting their homes to celebrate Eid is not a crime.
"I have never done politics on the basis of religion," he said, and appealed to the reporters not to connect everything with politics. "I do not do politics by dividing society on the lines of caste, religion and sect," he said.
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