Pappu Yadav dares CPM to defeat him in polls

RJD MP Pappu Yadav took serious exception to CPI-M's charge that the UPA was taking recourse to convicted MPs.

RJD MP Pappu Yadav took serious exception to CPI-M’s charge that the UPA was taking recourse to convicted members to win the trust vote in Lok Sabha, saying “tell the Left to come to my constituency and defeat me”.

“I have been an MP for five terms. I challenge the Left to come to my constituency and fight elections against me. That will be better than abusing someone,” the MP from Bihar’s Madhepura seat told reporters outside Parliament House.

The 41-year-old MP, who has been sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering CPI(M) MLA Ajit Sarkar and is lodged in Tihar jail in New Delhi, was also confident that the UPA will sail through the trust vote.

“Not only me, youngsters, scientists, intellectuals are saying that the Government is going to survive,” he said. Supporting the nuclear deal, the jailed MP said that the Indo-US accord is “very crucial” and this will be realised only when the country “starts facing shortage of petroleum products and coal due to increased demand”.

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