Former LS speaker Sumitra
Mahajan
expressed surprise over the last-minute
withdrawal
of
nomination
by
Congress candidate
from
Indore
, Akshay Kanti Bam, calling it unfair and unethical. Voters had the right to decide in a democratic set-up, she asserted. Bam had pulled out of the poll race on April 29, the last date for withdrawal of nominations, and joined BJP within hours, leaving Congress stunned.
“People are calling me and asking me, ‘what has happened Tai’?,” Mahajan told TOI Saturday.
“This should not have happened. There was no need for this, as BJP’s victory in Indore was a foregone conclusion,” Mahajan said, hinting that she believed BJP was behind Bam’s move. Indore is a saffron stronghold and Mahajan, now 81, represented the constituency eight consecutive times since 1989.
