BJP will never give me a second chance: Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh
Lucknow/IBNS: Former MP from Kaiserganj and Wrestling Federation of India chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, who was denied a ticket from Uttar Pradesh in the general election amid a row over sexual harassment allegations against him, Monday said he would never get a second chance from the party.
In May on being asked if the allegations had cost him a poll ticket, the former MP had said, "My son has got a ticket".
Karan Bhushan Singh won the constituency this time, which his father had represented since 2009.
Talking to reporters in Paraspur on Monday, Brij Bhushan Singh said, "The BJP will never give me a chance now. I know the party will not give me a chance. I don't dream like Mungerilal. Those who want to, can."
The former chief of the Wrestling Federation of India has been accused of sexually harassing several women wrestlers.
Amid a massive row over the allegations and a weeks-long protest by the country's top wrestlers last year, he was removed as the chief of the federation. He was not allowed to contest the Lok Sabha election either and his son was fielded instead.
The trial in the case started last week. Indian Penal Code sections relating to sexual harassment, use of force against a woman, and criminal intimidation have been slapped on the heavyweight leader.
He has pleaded not guilty, denying any wrongdoing. "When I have not committed any mistake, why will I admit it?" he had said.
On Monday, Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh went on a tour of his former parliamentary constituency in the Gonda district of UP.
He had made a stopover at Paraspur, where a Samajwadi Party leader, Om Prakash Singh, had been murdered in broad daylight. He had gone there to meet the family members.
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