Union Minister and BJP Lok Sabha candidate Ravi Shankar Prasad on Saturday questioned actor-turned-politician Shatrughan Sinha’s commitment to the Congress, his new party, for favouring SP leader Akhilesh Yadav as the prime ministerial candidate. The Union Minister is now in direct contest with Mr. Sinha, the two-time BJP MP from Patna Sahib, who is a Congress candidate this time. Talking to reporters, Mr. Prasad said he would not name his rival during the entire campaigning. To a query about Mr. Sinha favouring Akhilesh Yadav as the PM candidate, Mr. Prasad said, “You better ask this question to the Patna Sahib MP. Mr. Sinha’s wife Poonam Sinha had on April 18 filed her nomination papers from Lucknow as a Samajwadi Party nominee against BJP candidate and Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh.

Source: The Hindu April 20, 2019 19:40 UTC