Neeraj Shekhar, son of former prime minister Chandra Shekhar, on Wednesday filed his nomination papers as the BJP candidate for Rajya Sabha bypoll from Uttar Pradesh, and is all set to be re-elected unopposed.
"No one trusts the SP leadership now," the leader, who had recently quit the Samajwadi Party and resigned from the Rajya Sabha seat, told reporters after filing his papers in the presence of UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, BJP state unit Swatantra Dev Singh and other senior party leaders
Attacking Samajwadi Party supremo Akhilesh Yadav, he said, "No one trusts the SP leadership now. Everyone knows that after the Lok Sabha polls, the leadership is itself in grief and does not want to work on ground."
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