BSP denies ticket to MP from Hamirpur

Goswami had won the Assembly poll from Mahoba as a BSP candidate in 2007. However,he was not given the ticket by the BSP in 2012 Assembly election.

BSP general secretary Naseemuddin Siddiqui,who announced Goswami’s name during a party function at Mahoba last week,said the decision of denying ticket to Singh was taken by the national leadership and he could not comment on it. He,however,added that Singh has been asked to oversee organisation’s work in Bundelkhand. A local party leader from Bundelkhand said Singh was denied ticket after the party leadership got the report that he may not be a winning candidate. He said that Singh had not been much involved in his constituency and did not take interest in development work there.

Singh,an Allahabad High Court lawyer,had defeated SP candidate Rajnarayan alias Rajju by a margin of more than 25,000 votes in 2009.

When contacted,Singh said he was not interested in contesting election. He,however,added that regional parties have no future. Sources said Singh was in touch with BJP leaders and was trying to get a ticket from the party.

Singh is BSP’s third sitting MP to be denied ticket. The party has named Kamlesh Shukla from Deoria in place of sitting MP Gorakh Prasad Jaiswal. Kairana MP Tabassum Hassan has been replaced with Qamar Hassan after her son Nahid Munawwar’s name was announced by the SP as its candidate from the same seat. Qamar is Nahid’s uncle.