MORADABAD: Hours before polling in Moradabad's minority community-dominated Kundarki assembly segment, an audio clip of BSP candidate and sitting MLA Haji Rizwan has gone viral in which he can be heard appealing to his supporters to cast their votes in favour of BJP "to prevent Samajwadi Party's Ziaur Rahman, the grandson of Sambhal MP Shafiqur Rahman Barq, from winning the seat".
Rizwan, who had recently switched over from SP after being denied a ticket, was unfazed. He told TOI that "under no circumstances" should the SP candidate win. "So, I appealed to my voters," he said.
