bharatiya janata party announced candidates for 51 lok sabha seats of Uttar Pradesh on Saturday, march 2, 2024. However, now he may have to announce his candidate again on one seat. Actually, bjp had made upendra Singh Rawat its candidate from Barabanki lok sabha seat. Rawat was elected from Barabanki in the 2019 general elections on bjp ticket. However, after his alleged video went viral on social media on Sunday, he has refused to contest the elections. After the video went viral, the mp has lodged an FIR with the police. After this he also responded. Rawat wrote on social media site It should be done. I will not contest any election in public life until I am proven innocent.
After this post of Rawat, it is believed that bharatiya janata party can again field a candidate on Barabanki seat. upendra Singh Rawat had contested the 2019 general elections from Barabanki and won the election against Samajwadi party candidate ram Sagar Rawat.
Rawat issued a statement
Rawat said that an edited video of mine is being made viral by some political opponents. These are the people who have become sidelined in politics. He claimed that my face has been made viral in an old video. The bjp leader said that this video was made viral after my opponents got tickets again. The mp said that I have lodged an FIR in relation to the video and investigation is going on. Action will be taken against those who have committed this act.
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