Law Kumar Mishra
Patna, October 16
It’s a contest among the foreign-studied candidates in Bihar’s Bankipore assembly constituency!
Luv Sinha, the 39-year-old son of film star turned politician Shatrughan Sinha is pitted against 33-year-old Pushpam Priya Chaudhury. While Luv Sinha filed his papers as Congress candidate, Pushpam submitted his nomination documents as candidate of newly floated Plurals Party backed by Prashant Kishore, once advisor to Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.
Luv graduated from School of Communications, Webster University, Missouri (USA) in 2004 while his opponent Pushpam Priya completed his Masters in Public Administration from School of Political Science, London and MA in development studies from University of Suxxes in 2016.
Both the fresh candidates have no criminal antecedents.
Luv had acted in two films-Sadiyaan in 2009 and Paltan in 2018,both failed to become popular support of the viewers.Pushpam Priya had inserted full page one advertisements on both English and Hindi newspapers before coming to Patna from London in March and presented herself as the chief minister candidate.
Luv Sinha was seen actively campaigning for his father in 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
Ms Poonam Sinha, wife of Shatrughan Sinha who accompanied Luv, said the entire family would campaign for the Congress candidate. She said “Saheb (Shatrughan)” will also come soon while Sonakshi will join depending on her schedule.
Poonam who had campaigned for her husband in 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha elections said the twin brother, Kush is also reaching to campaign for his brother. She claimed the family believed in the principle of high in performance and low in publicity. “Our campaign will be low key and Luv will visit the voters individually,” she added.
She claimed Shatrughan Sinha visited Patna even when elections were not planned. “He comes to the airport, straight into action, unlike other leaders who practice in publicity only.”
Their main opponent is the sitting BJP MP, Nitin Navin, who represented Bankipore for the last three terms. His father Navin Kishore was also a BJP MLA. A former member of the National Commission for Women and president of Mahila Morcha of BJP, Sushmna Sahu is also contesting against the official party nominee.
Bankipore is in the heart of the capital and among the voters are residents of Kadamkuan, colony of lawyers and judges, Rajendra Nagar, high profile residential colony of doctors and professors, Patna University, Collectorate and Gandhi Maidan’s commercial areas.
