U.P. Assembly election | BJP MP Rita Bahuguna Joshi offers to resign to secure ticket for son
The Hindu
Her move might restart the Brahmin vs Thakur debate as Rajnath Singh’s son has already been allotted a ticket.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was still recovering from last week’s of at least 10 MLAs in U.P., including three ministers, Allahabad MP Rita Bahuguna Joshi gave it another shock on Tuesday after she publicly offered to give up her Lok Sabha membership if the party fields her son from Lucknow Cantonment seat in the upcoming State Assembly Elections.
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Ms. Joshi, who met party’s U.P. in-charge Dharmendra Pradhan in Delhi, said her son had been active in the Assembly constituency and should get the party ticket. She, however, denied that she was lobbying for him.
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