“My husband is not like that, he has two daughters. This is a fake case, people give us justice” – At every public meeting in Amethi, Maharaji Prajapati and his daughters Sudha and Ankita shed tears, which also benefits the villagers. After a brief address by Maharaji and Ankita, they join the crowd. going, and hugging the women who consoled him, and wiping away the tears himself.
This is the scene of Amethi, where Samajwadi Party A housewife has given ticket to Maharaji Prajapati, wife of former SP minister Gayatri Prajapati, who was serving a life sentence in a rape case last year and is in jail. Gayatri was the MLA of Amethi from 2007 to 2012, before she became a ‘villain’ in a rape case in the 2017 Uttar Pradesh elections and lost from the seat.
The SP is clearly trying to show sympathy to the Prajapati family this time by taking back the constituency from the Bharatiya Janata Party, which has fielded the ‘Raja of Amethi’ Sanjay Singh, who has his own story. Former MP Singh was face in Congress Amethi Before he switched to the BJP two years ago with his wife Amita Singh, who had lost the seat to the Congress in the 2017 election.
The winner then was Singh’s ‘legally married wife’ Garima Singh from the BJP. With the entire Singh family now in the BJP, the party has chosen to give ticket to Sanjay and not either of the two queens. Singh is contesting the assembly elections after nearly 30 years. “I was not that keen when I was offered a ticket to fight, but now I am a committed soldier of the BJP,” Singh told CNN-News18.
sympathy for whom?
“Our society is always sympathetic to this kind of situation but at the same time, the people of Amethi know that justice has come from the courts. Sympathy is really to the girl who was raped and the legal system has taken the decision. The people of Amethi are not so naive that they will not understand what is right and what is wrong,” Singh said in an interview with CNN-News18.
In the public meetings of the SP, the mother and her daughters are calling it a fake case and saying that they are appealing in the High Court because the victim also did not support her point in the court. “I am going in public to get justice for my husband. The government has implicated my husband in this case. My husband is not like that; He didn’t take a bad look at anyone. He is innocent and I can never believe that my husband can do something like this,” Maharajji Prajapati told CNN-News18.
His daughter Ankita says, ‘My father has been wronged. It was an injustice.” She says her father has been in jail for five years and they are telling people how they were tortured in the process. “He was booked in a fake case and yet She was sentenced. We are telling people about our struggle of the last five years. We will file an appeal in the High Court,” Ankita told CNN-NEWS18.
The family also says that when Union Minister Ajay Mishra’s son Ashish Mishra He can get bail after allegedly running after farmers, why can’t Gayatri Prajapati get bail when his health deteriorates in jail. “He is the savior of the poor and the helpless,” says Maharaji Prajapati. The daughter adds: “We will do more for this sector than our father. Just strengthen the hands of us and Akhilesh to get out of jail.
Sanjay’s advice to Congress
Locals say that the seat with a lot of Yadav and Muslim voters gives an edge to the SP and further, the Congress candidate is a Brahmin, which may damage some of the BJP votes here. However, Sanjay Singh says that there is no longer a picture of Congress in Amethi.
“The Congress itself is not ready to see its home. Amethi was the so-called fiefdom of Congress because of us. My father had called Sanjay Gandhi to contest from here. Congress is not serious towards Congress. BJP and Modi are going down to the people and trying to lift them up and people are accepting them. That’s why BJP is going up and Congress is going down,” Sanjay Singh told CNN-News18 in Amethi.
Fundamental defect in Congress, says Sanjay Singh, “Congress leaders are now looking at their likes and dislikes, not what is good and right for the party. That is the problem.”
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