Summary:
Singh, who is from Rabupura village and was reportedly close to Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi, joined BJP after spending nearly three decades with Congress. He had contested the 2012 assembly polls from Jewar on a Congress ticket but lost to BSP's Vedram Bhati by a margin of 9,500 votes.In Muradnagar in Ghaziabad, the BJP again fielded a Congress turncoat, Ajit Pal Tyagi (44), who had joined the BJP in December last year. Nagar, who had joined the BSP in 2007, had quit the party in 2014 and joined the BJP. The party has dumped Brijpal Teotia, who was its candidate in the 2012 assembly polls. Gujjar had been elected as the Ghaziabad district president of BJP in 2014..