Sanjay Dutt to contest Lok Sabha elections on SP ticket from Lucknow
Film actor Sanjay Dutt will contest the Lok Sabha elections on the Samajwadi Party (SP) ticket from Lucknow. Mr. Dutt told a press conference on Friday that he was still an actor and not a politician as yet.
“My big brother Amar Singh said I should serve the people and I cannot refuse an offer from him,” he said. The Samajwadi Party and the Congress are in alliance and they are not really separate. The SP supported the Congress at a time of crisis and they were one, he pointed out.
He said that his parents Sunil and Nargis Dutt had supported the Gandhi family since his childhood.
He really respected Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi and he was always there for both of them.
However, he clarified that he was fighting on the Samajwadi Party ticket and he had taken legal advice on this issue. His lawyers would ask for suspension of sentence.
He said that it was the media which was saying that he could not contest. But if Navjot Singh Sidhu who has been convicted of murder had his sentence suspended and contested elections, then why can’t he? The court had only convicted him under the Arms Act in any case.
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