Date:07/04/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/04/07/stories/2008040754410700.htm

National

Shatrughan Sinha wishes to enter Lok Sabha from Patna Saheb seat

SHIMLA: Veteran actor and BJP leader Shatrughan Sinha on Sunday wished to make his maiden entry into Lok Sabha from the newly carved out Patna Saheb seat. “Since I have been born and brought up in Patna, I wish to make my maiden entry into Lok Sabha from Patna Saheb constituency,” Sinha told PTI over phone.

According to the Delimitation Committee recommendations, the existing Patna Lok Sabha seat has been divided into Patna Saheb and Patliputra constituencies. The Patna Saheb seat comprises assembly seats of Patna West, Central, East and Bhakhtiyarpur. Asked from which party he would enter into the fray, Sinha, who was recently denied Rajya Sabha nomination from Bihar for the third consecutive time, remained non-committal on the issue. “Today I am firmly in BJP, but I do not believe in political untouchability as is our leader Advaniji,” he added. Sinha’s reported meeting with Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi recently had given rise to the speculation the BJP’s star campaigner planned to cross over to that party.