BJP MP and WFI chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, accused of sexually harassing female wrestlers, on Sunday said he will contest the 2024 Lok Sabha elections from Kaisarganj again and was awaiting the court’s verdict to speak on the grapplers’ stir. He was replying to queries from media persons after addressing a rally in the district’s Balpur area where he skipped any direct reference to the wrestlers’ protest for his arrest and chose to target the Congress over the Emergency, Ram temple, the 1984 anti-Sikhs riots and other issues.

 

Asked by the reporters why he was not commenting on the wrestlers’ protest and what was he waiting for, the BJP MP said, “Court ke faisle ka (court’s verdict).” On whether he will contest the 2024 Lok Sabha elections from Gonda or Ayodhya, Singh said, “Kaiserganj Lok Sabha seat se chunav ladunga, ladunga, ladunga (I will definitely contest from Kaiserganj).”

 

Brij Bhushan Singh has represented the Kaisarganj Lok Sabha constituency thrice -- once as an SP MP (from 2009 to 2014). He won the 2004 general elections from the Balrampur Lok Sabha seat, and the 1991 and 1999 Lok Sabha polls from the Gonda seat on BJP tickets. Currently, he is serving a sixth term as Lok Sabha MP. The rally was organised to celebrate the completion of nine years of the Narendra Modi Government at the Centre. During his address on Sunday, the MP also said that no force in the world could stop the BJP from coming to power again in 2024. In his attack on the Congress, Singh said, “In 1947, the country got divided when the Congress was in power. The wounds of the Partition had not even healed when Pakistan attacked and grabbed 78,000 square kilometres of our land while the Congress was in power.” Singh also attacked the Congress for imposing the Emergency in the country in 1975. “The Congress got Sikhs massacred in 1984 in the anti-Sikh riots,” he added.