Kirti Azad files papers for Dhanbad LS seat
Saturday - April 20, 2019 7:04 pm ,
Category : INDIA
Ranchi, April 20 (IANS) Cricketer-turned-politician Kirti Azad filed his nomination papers on Saturday for Jharkhand's Dhanbad Lok Sabha seat on a Congress ticket.Only district level leaders were present during the occasion as Azad is facing protests by local Congress leaders who consider him an outsider.Azad had joined the Congress in February. A three-time MP, he was suspended from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 2015 after some of his remarks were seen as a violation of party discipline.He will face the BJP's sitting MP Pasupati Nath Singh.Geeta Koda, wife of former Chief Minister Madhu Koda, also filed her nomination papers from West Singhbhum seat.
--IANS ns/mag/bg
--IANS ns/mag/bg
