LUCKNOW: The Samajwadi Party on Wednesday nominated popular stand-up comedian Raju Srivatava as the party's candidate for the 2014 general elections from Kanpur parliamentary seat. The party has also retained the sitting SP MP from Mirzapur Bal Kumar Patel - brother of slain brigand Daduwa - from his seat. The party though has replaced Om Prakash Singh as the candidate for the Ghazipur parliamentary constituency by nominating Radhe Mohan as the SP man for the seat.
The nomination of Bal Kumar has once again shifted the focus on candidates with criminal antecedents contesting the elections. But the party appears unconcerned for the simple reason: He is a sitting MP from Mirzapur. "That is a baseless allegation. He is an elected MP which establishes the fact that he is there because the people want him," says cabinet minister for prisons Rajendra Chaudhary, who is also the spokesperson for the party's state unit. The total of 10 criminal cases pending against Bal Kumar as on date too are hardly a deterrent for the party's political strategy. "Most of them are politically motivated cases that were lodged after he entered politics," says another senior leader of the party.
It is noteworthy that Raju Srivastava's name as a Congress candidate had surfaced during the 2009 general elections only to be dismissed as a wild rumor by both Raju Srivastava himself and the Congress leaders.
Now, he id all set to face Congress's sitting MP and Union minister Sriprakash Jaiswal in Kanpur. With absolutely no experience in politics, not even during his student years, Raju Srivastava's name is sure to lure the young and old alike to guarantee large crowds at his public meetings, to say the least.
Source: TOI
The nomination of Bal Kumar has once again shifted the focus on candidates with criminal antecedents contesting the elections. But the party appears unconcerned for the simple reason: He is a sitting MP from Mirzapur. "That is a baseless allegation. He is an elected MP which establishes the fact that he is there because the people want him," says cabinet minister for prisons Rajendra Chaudhary, who is also the spokesperson for the party's state unit. The total of 10 criminal cases pending against Bal Kumar as on date too are hardly a deterrent for the party's political strategy. "Most of them are politically motivated cases that were lodged after he entered politics," says another senior leader of the party.
It is noteworthy that Raju Srivastava's name as a Congress candidate had surfaced during the 2009 general elections only to be dismissed as a wild rumor by both Raju Srivastava himself and the Congress leaders.
Now, he id all set to face Congress's sitting MP and Union minister Sriprakash Jaiswal in Kanpur. With absolutely no experience in politics, not even during his student years, Raju Srivastava's name is sure to lure the young and old alike to guarantee large crowds at his public meetings, to say the least.
Source: TOI
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