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Lucknow: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has purportedly failed to have strongman and MLA from Uttar Pradeshs Kunda constituency, Raghuraj Pratap Singh popularly known as Raja Bhaiya by its side in the ongoing Lok Sabha polls..
Singhs supporters have openly campaigned for the Samajwadi Party candidate Pushpendra Saroj in Kaushambi, and are also set to extend support to the partys Pratapgarh candidate, S.P. Singh Patel..
Miffed about the open challenge by Kaushambis incumbent MP and BJP candidate Vinod Sonkar to their leader, Singhs supporters have been sharing old statements made by him about the upper caste communities, including the Kshatriyas, Brahmins and Vaishyas...
While Singh publicly acknowledged that candidates of both BJP and Samajwadi Party had come to meet him, he made it clear that his supporters were free to vote for whoever they wanted, ruling out any inclination, at least publicly, towards either of the parties...
Unlike what you saw in the assembly polls, our supporters wont participate in BJPs rallies there, Singhs aide said.. Dinesh Tiwari, JD(L) youth cell president in Pratapgarh, told ThePrint that the unit had called an emergency meeting Monday, where they may publicly announce their support for the SP candidate, S.P. Singh Patel, who is pitted against BJPs sitting MP Sangam Lal Gupta...
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