In another embarrassment for the Congress in Uttar Pradesh, party candidate from Basti lok Sabha seat Sanjay Jaiswal refused to contest the elections after being charged with a rape case.
Sanjay Jaiswal, Congress MlA from Rudauli Assembly segment in Basti, has shot-off a letter to Congress president Sonia Gandhi claiming that “he is innocent and had been falsely framed in a rape case.”
In the letter, dispatched on Tuesday, Jaiswal said that since the Congress Party has always fought for women empowerment, it is his moral responsibility to first come out clean of the charges and then contest the elections.
“Hence, till the time I am cleared of charges I will not contest the elections,” he said in his letter and requested Sonia to select some other suitable candidate. Jaiswal had earlier filed his nomination but without the Congress symbol from the seat.
The Congress MlA had been accused of rape by a women and a case in this regard had been registered against him at lucknow’s women police station.
The victim had also given her statement under Section 164 of the CrPC.
lucknow police has served a notice to Jaiswal seeking his clarification on the charges.
Sources said that Jaiswal feared that once he would turned up before police to record his statement, he will be arrested in the matter.