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George Fernandes

Bihar’s ‘Osama bin Laden’ missing from election arena

Noor, who heads the Awami Insaf Morcha (AIM), was in the news in 2014 when he pledged to contest that Lok Sabha election against BJP's then Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi from Varanasi. But his nomination papers were rejected. He was so much in demand that Paswan and Lalu Prasad would invariably find a seat for him on their campaign helicopters, even if it meant dropping a senior party leader.

Singular firebrand

When he was appointed defence minister there were apprehensions that he would be at constant loggerheads with the strait-laced convention-bound military establishment.