Summary:
Putting up a candidate against me means allowing the BJP to win,” Mehmood told TOI.In the 2012 assembly elections, Mehmood defeated BJP candidate Rajesh Singhal with a margin of 30,000 votes. Cabinet minister and four-term MLA Mehmood is considered close to chief minister Akhilesh Yadav and his ticket had also been announced from Sambhal City constituency. Sambhal: Samajwadi Party leader and four-time MP Shafeeque-ur-Rahman Barq has decided to fielding his grandson Ziaur Rehman against sitting SP MLA Iqbal Mehmood in Sambhal constituency.Barq, who belongs to the Shivpal-Mulayam camp, has decided that he will field his grandson even if the latter has to fight as an independent candidate. Our ancestors devoted their lives for the uplift of the people here,” Barq told his supporters at the meeting.“Akhilesh has once again trusted me and allowed me to contest from Sambhal. Barq has changed parties and gone to the BSP and returned just for his own interests..