BJP Issues Show Cause To Sitting MP Jayant Sinha For Skipping Poll Campaigns

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New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has issued a show cause notice to former minister Jayant Sinha for not participating in the campaign for Lok Sabha elections and also not casting his vote.

The notice came after Jayant Sinha remained absent during the polls in Jharkhand’s Hazaribagh on Monday from where he is the sitting MP.

“You are not taking any interest in organisational work and election campaigning ever since the party declared Manish Jaiswal as the candidate from Hazaribag LS seat. You did not even feel proper to exercise your right of franchise. The party’s image has been maligned due to your conduct,” BJP state general secretary Aditya Sahu wrote in the notice.

Sinha, who had won the Hazaribagh seat by a margin of 479 thousand votes in 2019, has been asked to explain his stand within two days following which the party will decide on the future course of action.

In March, Sinha had expressed his desire not to contest the Lok Sabha polls. In a post on X on March 2, he had requested BJP chief JP Nadda to relieve him of direct electoral duties. He said he wanted to focus his “efforts on combating global climate change in Bharat and around the world”.

Soon after, BJP announced Manish Jaiswal as its candidate from the high-profile seat, which Sinha’s father and former Minister Yashwant Sinha once represented.

It is pertinent to mention here that Sinha’s son Aashir Sinha joined the Congress early this month.