Speculation was rife that Jitendra Tiwari will be the BJP candidate for the Asansol Lok Sabha seat after his social media post.
Jitendra Tiwari (photo:ANI)
Speculation was rife that Jitendra Tiwari will be the BJP candidate for the Asansol Lok Sabha seat after his social media post.
The former MLA of Pandaveswar and also the former mayor of Asansol Municipal Corporation, Jitendra Tiwari had posted on his social media yesterday that a surprise is awaiting and a son of the soil (bhoomiputra) will get the ticket from BJP for the Asansol Lok Sabha seat.
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“Asansol vs TMC Just Wait and watch,” he wrote on his social media handle.
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In the first list Pawan Singh, Bhojpuri-actor-cum singer from Bihar was nominated as the BJP candidate for the Asansol Lok Sabha seat, but a day later he announced that he will not contest the polls.
However, a week later, he once again changed his mind and announced in the social media that he will contest as a BJP candidate from Asansol.
But since then the BJP central leadership had been is tight-lipped on this issue.
And the names of Priyanka Tibrewal and Jitendra Tiwari were doing the rounds in the last few days. Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari has been reportedly backing Jitendra Tiwari, through whom the former mayor has joined the saffron party before the 2021 assembly polls.
He had lost the 2021 Assembly polls from Pandaveswar on a BJP ticket.
While in Durgapur, BJP supporters have started writing wall graffiti in the name of Asansol South MLA, Agnimitra Paul. BJP is yet to announce the name of its Durgapur – Burdwan Lok Sabha seat candidate where Surendar Singh Ahluwalia is the sitting MP.
BJP leader of Burnpur steel township and former Assembly candidate Pawan Kumar Singh has also called a press meet and urged the central leadership to nominate him for the Asansol Lok Sabha seat.
“I am a soldier of the BJP for over 40 years. You have announced Pawan Singh as the party candidate. I am also one Pawan Singh and a bhoomiputra. Prefer the local Pawan Singh over the outsider Pawan Singh,” he had urged J P Nadda, the BJP national president.
Eyeing the huge non-Bengali vote bank, both TMC and BJP have chosen Hindi-speaking candidates.
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