The BJP on Tuesday sought to know what compelled the Samajwadi Party (SP) to field its jailed leader Azam Khan for the upcoming polls and labelled it a party of “jail and bail”.
Khan, the incumbent Lok Sabha MP from Rampur, has been in jail since February 2020 in various cases filed against him during the Yogi Adityanath regime in Uttar Pradesh.
Gaurav Bhatia, BJP’s spokesperson, sought an answer from SP chief Akhilesh Yadav on Khan’s candidature "even when the court had denied him bail".
He said the SP was deemed to be wiped off in the upcoming Assembly elections because the party stood for “lawlessness”.
The Bahujan Samaj Party on Tuesday released names of six remaining candidates for the February 20 Punjab Assembly polls.
The Mayawati-led party has tied up with the Shiromani Akali Dal for the elections and contesting on 20 of 117 Assembly seats.
According to the list of candidates released by the party, Dalbir Kaur will contest from Amritsar Central, Balwinder Kumar from Kartarpur, Anil Minia from Jalandhar West and Mahinder Singh from Sham Chaurasi.
Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Tuesday took a swipe at his former cabinet colleague Michael Lobo for `giving priority to wife over country'.
Lobo, who was a minister in the BJP government, recently quit the party along with his wife Deliah to join Congress ahead of assembly elections. He was reportedly seeking BJP ticket for his wife from Siolim constituency but was spurned.
“We work with the philosophy of `nation first, state first', while former MLA Michael Lobo, who has left the party, has his priority as 'patni pratham' (wife first),” Sawant said.
The CM was talking to reporters after Joseph Sequeira, a local leader from Calangute constituency, was inducted in the BJP.