UP panchayat ballot: BJP nominates Sengar’s spouse

In 5 extra districts, the BJP on Thursday declared its checklist of panchayat ballot candidates that included the title of Sangeeta Sengar, spouse of former BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar who was convicted in a rape case. Sengar’s Assembly membership was cancelled after his conviction.
Sangeeta, who’s the outgoing Zila Panchayat Chairperson of Unnao, has been given a ticket from Fatehpur Chaurasi Tritaya seat for the Zila Panchayat member. Names of 51 candidates had been launched for various Zila Panchayat wards in Unnao.
Sangeeta had turn out to be the Zila Panchayat chairman from Unnao district in 2016. At that point, panchayat elections weren’t contested on political celebration image. But this time, political events, together with BJP, have determined to formally declare its candidates in order that there is no such thing as a confusion or dearth of assist on the grassroots degree.

Candidates are being declared day-after-day from chosen districts. On Thursday, the nominees had been declared from Unnao, Mau, Balrampur, Basti and Kushinagar.
Sangeeta had additionally campaigned for BJP candidate Srikant Katiyar throughout the bypolls within the Bangarmau Assembly constituency and this time, senior celebration leaders will marketing campaign for her in addition to for different candidates.
As a BJP candidate, Kuldeep Sengar had received the state Assembly polls from Bangarmau Assembly seat of Unnao in 2017. However, the seat fell vacant after he was convicted within the rape case and was expelled from the celebration.

CBI had chargesheeted Sengar for raping a minor and conspiring to implicate her father in a false case who later died within the jail following accidents attributable to assault. Sengar’s brother and others had been chargesheeted for the homicide of the sufferer’s father.