Regar to take on Azam in Rampur

  • | Wednesday | 27th March, 2019

On Tuesday BJP also announced Jaya Prada as the candidate from Rampur on the same day that she joined the party. The party claims that he has been pitched against Samajwadi Party’s Azam Khan to get SC/ST community votes. JAIPUR: Shambhu Lal Regar, the man who hacked a Muslim labourer to death in Rajsamand and posted the murder’s video clips on social media, has been nominated by the UP Navnirman Sena to contest the Lok Sabha elections from Rampur in UP. We are confident that he will not only win but win with a big margin. He can raise issues related to Dalits.”After murdering Mohd Afrazul, the labourer from Bengal, Regar had claimed he had committed the crime to save a Hindu girl from “love jihad’’.

JAIPUR: Shambhu Lal Regar, the man who hacked a Muslim labourer to death in Rajsamand and posted the murder’s video clips on social media, has been nominated by the UP Navnirman Sena to contest the Lok Sabha elections from Rampur in UP. The party claims that he has been pitched against Samajwadi Party’s Azam Khan to get SC/ST community votes. Previously Sena was deliberating giving the ticket to Regar for Lok Sabha election from Agra but changed it keeping in mind the voters, claimed the party chief.Regar is currently lodged at Jodhpur Central Jail for allegedly hacking a Muslim labourer to death in Rajsamand and streaming the murder on social media on December 6, 2017.Amit Jani, president, Navnirman Sena told TOI, “We have decided to make Regar the candidate from Rampur so that no SC/ST votes go to Azam Khan. We are confident that he will not only win but win with a big margin. He can raise issues related to Dalits.”After murdering Mohd Afrazul, the labourer from Bengal, Regar had claimed he had committed the crime to save a Hindu girl from “love jihad’’. He also got his nephew to record the video of the murder. The accused remained in news even after being imprisoned for allegedly posting hate videos on internet, which were later removed despite being in Jodhpur jail.The polling for Lok Sabha election in Rampur constituency will be held in the third phase on April 23.“Regar will file his nomination before March 31 and at present we are going through the legal procedure for the same. He is in jail hence an election commission official will have to go to there to get the nomination formalities done”, added Jani.Incidentally Khan against whom Sena is pitching Regar, is contesting the Lok Sabha for the first time and is the sitting MLA from Rampur. On Tuesday BJP also announced Jaya Prada as the candidate from Rampur on the same day that she joined the party.

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