New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh Cabinet Minister Raghuraj Pratap Singh, alias Raja Bhaiya, has landed in another controversy over his age disclosed in his election nominations even as Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav backed him on his criminal antecedents.
As per the latest affidavit submitted with the Election Commission by Raja Bhaiya, his age is 38 that makes his year of birth as 1974. This, of course, can't be true considering the fact that Raja Bhaiya won from Kunda seat in Pratapgarh district in 1993, the first time he entered the electoral fray and if this affidavit is to be correct he should have been 19 years at that time, which is not the permissible age for contesting polls.
One can contest assembly polls only after attaining the age of 25 years.
Though officials of Election Commission say that Raja Bhaiya's candidature may not come under scrutiny presently, as there is nothing in his candidature that renders him disqualified. At best, police said, a criminal case can be filed against him for furnishing false information and the case be investigated to find out what went wrong and where, if anything at all.
Asked on the issue, Mulayam Singh Yadav said he would work good as he was a youth.
Besides Prison, Raja Bhaiya has been alloted Food and Civil Supplies department in Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav's Cabinet.
Raja Bhaiya was not available for comments.
On criminal antecedents of Raja Bhaiya, Mulayam said "no court has held Raja Bhaiya guilty. There are many allegations against party members. Who is there in SP who does not have FIR registered against him?"
(With additional inputs from PTI)
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