With Samajwadi Party (SP) fielding Raju Gandhi as their candidate for the Lucknow Cantonment seat, the speculations that the SP would field BJP MP Rita Bahuguna Joshi s son Mayank Joshi from the seat have been put to an end.
In his letter announcing VRS, Rajeshwar Singh had mentioned that "during his tenure in ED he uncovered and investigated many scams of national ramification and public significance."
With BJP's social engineering getting a jolt after a number of its OBC leaders joined the Samajwadi Party, the saffron party is all set to deepen its hardline Hindutva approach to work out a caste neutral narrative. The thinking in the party to field Yogi Adityanth from the nerve centre of Hindutva politics Ayodhya is mainly to do with giving a Hindutva face to BJP's poll