Denied ticket from Nawada, Giriraj goes into a sulk

March 18, 2019 19:27

Firebrand BJP leader and union minister Giriraj Singh on Monday apparently went into a sulk after being denied a seat from his Nawada Lok Sabha seat, which has gone to NDA ally LJP this time.

"Compulsions of seat-sharing may be there. But I wish to underscore that no other union minister from Bihar may have to give up his sitting seat. This is despite the fact that I have worked so much to nurture my constituency," the veteran Bharatiya Janata Party leader told media persons.

The National Democratic Alliance had on Sunday announced the number of seats to be contested by its three constituents -- the BJP, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal-United and Ram Vilas Paswan's Lok Janshakti Party.

As per the announcement, the BJP and the JD-U will contest 17 seats each and the LJP in six.

Asked whether he had expressed his wish to seek re-election from Nawada to state BJP president Nityanand Rai, Singh said, "I must have done so 200 times".

"Five years is a long time and I have become attached to Nawada and its people. Rai had assured me that I would get a ticket from wherever I wanted. Why this (denial of ticket) happened is for him to answer," Singh said.

On reports that he might be asked to contest from Begusarai, the seat which he had wanted to fight in 2014, Singh replied with a hint of bitterness, "I was a party worker, am a party worker and shall always remain a party worker."

Besides Giriraj Singh, the other union ministers from Bihar are Ashwini Kumar Choubey (Buxar), R K Singh (Ara), Ram Kripal Yadav (Pataliputra) and Radha Mohan Singh (Motihari).

-- PTI

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