Summary:
Unhappy with party’s choice of Dolly Sharma, Congress veteran Surender Prakash Goyal has raised the banner of revolt. On Friday, the SP-BSP leadership replaced Munni with Suresh Bansal.“The caste arithmetic is accounted for while deciding on the candidates, at least in UP. In 2004, Goyal had won the Hapur-Ghaziabad seat on a Congress ticket but lost to the BJP’s Rajnath Singh in 2009.The Congress’ Sharma though sounds confident as she prepares for the campaign phase. So, when the Congress announced the name of Dolly Sharma, who is a Brahmin, the SP-BSP had to replace Munni as he is also a Brahmin. The party’s decision, however, has upset the SP-BSP applecart which had already announced Surender Kumar Munni as its candidate for the seat..