Patna: Darbhanga MP Kirti Azad, who joined Congress after quitting BJP, has created a controversy by claiming that Congress workers looted polling booths for his father and him before EVMs were introduced.
Addressing a rally in Darbhanga, the cricketer-turned politician said, “In those days booths were looted, Congress workers used to loot polling booths for Nagendra ji (former Congress leader). Booths were looted for my father as well and in 1999, for me also. EVMs had not been introduced then.”
Kirti’s father Bhagwat Jha Azad was Bihar CM in the 1980s and Nagendra Jha, father of Bihar Congress president Madan Mohan Jha, was a minister then. Kirti, who was with BJP for a decade, was suspended from the party in 2015 for making charges against Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in connection with alleged irregularities in the Delhi and District Cricket Association.
