Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], January 26 (ANI): Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday defended the party's decision to give tickets to some candidates facing criminal cases and said most of these cases had been filed by the Bharatiya Janata Party government.
Noida Jan 24 PTI Kairana will see Iqra Chaudhary pitted against her controversial brother and sitting Samajwadi Party MLA Nahid Hasan for the assembly election in one of the most keenly-watched constituencies in Uttar PradeshThe 27-year-old Iqra had filed her nomination as an independent candidate on January 21 and her candidature has been approved according to the Election CommissionShe had also filed a nomination as a Samajwadi Party candidate but that has been rejected the EC website showedThe candidature of Samajwadi Partys Nahid Hasan who had filed nomination on January 14 has also been approved it showedBesides the siblings BJPs Mriganka Singh who was the runner up in 2017 polls nine other candidates including four independent nominees are in the fray from KairanaWhile nomination and scrutiny is over the last date for withdrawal of candidature is January 27 according to the EC schedule for the constituencies going to poll on February 10 in the first phase of elections in Uttar PradeshHasan was arrested on January 16 in connection with a 2021 case at the Kairana Kotwali under the UP Gangsters and Anti-Social Activities Prevention Act and sent to 14 days judicial custodyThe development had led to speculation that Samajwadi Party would cancel the candidature of Hasan and instead field his sister Iqra from the seatIn her affidavit seen by PTI Iqra has declared that she has no criminal case against her and also stated agriculture as her source of incomeIqra also mentioned that she graduated from the Delhi University in 2015 and completed her Masters in International Politics from SOAS London University in 2020Both Iqra and Nahid are children of Chaudhary Munawwar Hasan who was a two-term MLA from Kairana and two-term Lok Sabha MP from Muzaffarnagar in western Uttar Pradesh He had died in a road crash in 2008Kairana in Shamli district had grabbed headlines following the riots in adjoining Muzaffarnagar in 2013Several Hindu families were reported to have migrated from Kairana during 2014-2016 allegedly due to harassment by members of another community when the Samajwadi Party was in power in the stateWhile the BJP stormed into power after the 2017 elections the Kairana seat was won by SPs Nahid HasanKairana goes to poll on February 10 during the first phase of the elections in Uttar Pradesh and results will be declared on March 10 PTI KIS DV DV
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