Dismissed BSF jawan Tej Bahadur Yadav's nomination as SP candidate from Varanasi rejected

Dismissed BSF jawan Tej Bahadur Yadav's nomination as SP candidate from Varanasi rejected. SP candidate's counsel says they will approach the Supreme Court over the rejection of nomination.

Interacting with Media Yadav said that his nomination was rejected wrongly and he will go to Supreme Court.

Earlier the Samajwadi Party fielded former BSF jawan Tej Bahadur as alliance candidate from Varanasi against PM Narendra Modi. The Samajwadi Party announced on Monday to replace its candidate Shalini Yadav with Tej Bahadur who was dismissed from BSP in 2017 after he complained about the poor quality of food served to soldiers in a viral video.

Samajwadi Party MP candidate from Varanasi, Tej Bahadur Yadav: My nomination has been rejected wrongly. I was asked to produce the evidence at 6.15pm yesterday, we produced the evidence, still my nomination was rejected. We will go to the Supreme Court. pic.twitter.com/MF05gNoLJq

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