No Congress ticket for Arjun Singhs daughter also

Ministers son Ajeya Singh was a contender for the Sidhi seat but the party preferred veteran Indrajit Patel,who had lost the recent Assembly elections. The Congress had won only one out of the eight Assembly seats in Sidhi.

Ajeya Singh,who won by a margin of less than 11,000 votes from Churhat,was the chairman of the Congress election affairs committee in 2008. Though the party improved its tally to 71 in the 230-member House,he did not play any major role because he remained stuck in his constituency. Ajeya Singh staked a claim for Sidhi after the reserved SC seat changed to general after delimitation.

The HRD Minister,meanwhile,put up a brave face,appealing to his supporters to rally around the partys choice in his pocketborough.

With ENS New Delhi