Varanasi: Jailed mafia don and outgoing MLC Brijesh Singh has filed nomination for the Legislative Council elections from Varanasi.
This seat in Varanasi, Bhadohi and Chandauli districts has been with his family since 1998. His wife and former MLC Annapurna Singh has also filed his nomination from the same seat.
Brijesh had won the election in 2016 after completing his wife’s term.
Deputy District Election Officer and Returning Officer for MLC (Local Bodies) elections, Ran Vijay Singh said that two candidates, Brijesh Singh and Annapurna Singh, filed their nominations as independent candidates. Earlier, one Jai Ram of Lok Dal had filed his nomination.
As per the revised schedule released by the Election Commission of India, the process of filing nominations for the MLC elections will continue till March 21.
When the nomination process began on February 4, Brijesh and his wife had bought the forms, but the election was postponed in view of the assembly elections.
Local body election records for Varanasi constituency show that in 1998, Brijesh’s brother Udaynath Singh alias Chulbul Singh won the seat for the first time and retained it in 2004.
In 2010, Annapurna contested the elections on a Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) ticket and emerged victorious.
In 2012, Brijesh initially tried his luck in the state assembly elections by contesting from Sayyidaraja seat in Chandauli district on the ticket of a lesser-known political party, Pragatisheel Manav Samaj Party. However, he lost to Independent Manoj Singh W.
After winning the election, Manoj joined the Samajwadi Party (SP).
—AnyTV News
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