New Delhi: The Congress candidate for the Jewar constituency in Gautam Buddha Nagar district has put much more than his political fortunes at stake in the UP elections: he has taken a vow not to tie the nuptial knot till he becomes an MLA.
Bansi Pahadia is already 46 years old and it's his fourth attempt to make it to the Vidhan Shabha in Lucknow. "I had vowed not to get married till I get elected to the state Assembly," Pahadia says.
In the three elections that he contested here in the past, he has been unsuccessful in each attempt. In the 2002 polls, however, he came very close to achieving his dream. But Pahadia lost a tight race to Narendra Kumar of BSP by just 301 votes.
Thankfully, the party has been with him throughout and he has been nominated again this time.
"Aap Bansi ko jitake uska ghar basa dijiye (Help Bansi win election so that he can settle down in life," UPCC chief Salman Khursheed appealed to the voters at an election rally on Monday.
Pahadia has a bright chance this time. For BSP is not going with the sitting MLA and has instead fielded a former BJP man, Horam Singh. BJP has put up a woman candidate, Gita Kumari. And over and above of this, Bansi had Congress trump card Rahul Gandhi to campaign for him in his constituency on Sunday.
It was quite a coincident that bachelor Bansi has pinned all his hopes on a fellow bachelor, Rahul Gandhi.
The tone of Gandhi's speech was the same as he harped on Uttar Pradesh sliding down the development index in the last 15 years of "misrule" by successive SP and BSP governments and asked the youth to come forward to make a change.
The Jewar constituency has around 2.5 lakh voters with a mix of Muslims, Jats and Thakurs.
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