Bismillah Khan's kin refuse to support Modi in Varanasi?

April 21, 2014 10:20

Zee News reports: Late shehnai maestro Bismillah Khan's family has refused to be partisan to politics even as Varanasi turns hotbed of electoral ambition in the Lok Sabha polls.

Reports suggest that Khan's family members was approached by the Bharatiya Janata Party to support party's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi in his bid to wrest the east Uttar Pradesh seat, but they turned down the request.

Bismillah Khan's son Zamin Husain Bismillah was quoted saying that their's was a family of artists who had never indulged in political acts and refused to take sides in the hotly contested constituency.

Some BJP workers had floated the idea that Bismillah Khan's kin be a proposer for Modi when he files the nomination from Varanasi on April 24, reports said.

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