Patna, Jan 29 :After 'Munnabhai' Sanjay Dutt, it could be the turn of Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan to contest the upcoming Lok Sabha polls as a Samajwadi Party candidate.
Samajwadi Party workers and leaders in Bihar have decided to offer Aishwarya the party ticket for the Madhepura seat against Janata Dal-United (JD-U) national president Sharad Yadav, a party official said.

In view of the overwhelming demand of the party workers, the Samajwadi Party Bihar parliamentary board has recommended Aishwarya's name to party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav.

Senior party leader Tulsi Singh told IANS that a large number of party workers and people had requested him to convince Mulayam Singh to give the party ticket to Aishwarya from Madhepura. Singh is chairman of the party's state parliamentary board.

The Madhepura seat is held by the Rashtriya Janata Dal's Pappu Yadav, who is serving life imprisonment in Tihar Jail in Delhi for his involvement in the murder of Left leader Ajit Sarkar. His wife Ranjita Ranjan is a Lok Janshakti Party MP from Saharsa.

JD-U leader Sharad Yadav is likely to contest from Madhepura, his old seat.

In the last Lok Sabha polls in 2004, Railway Minister Lalu Prasad, the RJD chief, won from Madhepura by defeating Sharad Yadav. Lalu Prasad later resigned the Madhepura seat and opted to retain the Chapra seat.

Madhepura, a rural seat, is dominated by the backward Yadav caste. Last year, Madhepura was hit by devastating floods when the Kosi river changed its course after a breach upstream in Nepal.
(IANS)

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it is about time now that we  fill our parliament with kanjars(actotrs) and kanjaris(actresses).there was a time when our national leaders were gandhi,nehru,rajendra prasad,subhas chandra bose and many more with higher education and a great understaning of india.what is people of bihar thinking? i am a bihari living in the united states for the last 31 yrs.here a political candidate's education and experience of holding or wanting to hold a public office is heavily scrutinized by the public and media.shouldn't people of bihar examine the education and experience and the knowledge about the problems facing bihar in those candidates who want to represent bihar in the parliament?the canidates should also propose solutions to the problems facing bihar.
i am as a bihari, very disappointed to hear that a kanjari has been proposed who has no knowledge and experience about the problem facing bihar,to represent  bihar in national parliament.
abhay bhagat,
portland,oregon,usa

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