Fauji had first filed his nomination on April 25 as an Independent before repeating the exercise on April 29 as Samajwadi Party candidate. But the Samajwadi Party dramatically announced him as its candidate on April 29, withdrawing Shalini Yadav as its nominee. Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said that Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav and ally Mayawati were afraid of Modi. But I don’t fear Modi because I don’t have a history,” he told a rally in Barabanki. Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal accused Modi of getting Fauji’s nomination cancelled out of fear.

Source: The Telegraph May 02, 2019 00:56 UTC