Ex-SP MP joins Cong, gets Aonla ticket

  • | Monday | 25th March, 2019

Bareilly: Former MP of Samajwadi Party (SP), Sarvraj Singh, joined the Congress party on Sunday. Singh will now contest from Aonla Lok Sabha constituency on a Congress ticket.Notably, the Aonla seat has gone to BSP as part of the SP-BSP seat sharing agreement. They added that Singh will make a huge dent in the SP-BSP votes.Singh has been a three-time MP from Aonla. In 2004, he fought and won elections on a JD (U) ticket.However, in 2014, he lost to BJP candidate Dharmendra Kashyap, and has been preparing ever since for another comeback. After the meeting, the party declared him as the Aonla candidate.With the latest development, political pundits said that elections in Aonla has become more interesting.

Bareilly: Former MP of Samajwadi Party (SP), Sarvraj Singh, joined the Congress party on Sunday. Singh will now contest from Aonla Lok Sabha constituency on a Congress ticket.Notably, the Aonla seat has gone to BSP as part of the SP-BSP seat sharing agreement. BSP has decided to field Ruchi Veera as its candidate.Confirming his move to join the Congress, Singh said that he would reach Bareilly on Tuesday and then explain why he left SP.Sources close to the former SP MP said that he had been preparing to contest polls from Aonla for a long time and was deeply upset with the party’s move to give the seat to BSP.On Saturday, Singh met Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi. After the meeting, the party declared him as the Aonla candidate.With the latest development, political pundits said that elections in Aonla has become more interesting. They added that Singh will make a huge dent in the SP-BSP votes.Singh has been a three-time MP from Aonla. He has won two assembly elections from Bithari Chainpur, which is one of the assembly seats of Aonla parliamentary constituency. He won his first election in 1996 on a SP ticket and made a comeback in 1999. In 2004, he fought and won elections on a JD (U) ticket.However, in 2014, he lost to BJP candidate Dharmendra Kashyap, and has been preparing ever since for another comeback.

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