Sanjiv Bhatt's wife: Not a proxy candidate for him

November 30, 2012 18:14

Anti-Modi IPS officer Sanjeev Bhatt's wife Shweta Bhatt tells CNN IBN that she is not a proxy candidate for her husband. Bhatt says that even he could have contested the elections, but it was his wife's decision to contest against Modi.

Shweta Bhatt, the wife of suspended Indian Police Service officer Sanjiv Bhatt, announced today that she would contest the state assembly elections on a Congress ticket against Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi from Maninagar constituency in Ahmedabad. More on that candidature

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