AGRA: Bhartiya Janta Yuva Morcha (BJYM) former office-bearer Vinay Varshney, an undertrial lodged in jail for the murder of Mohammad Tariq during a clash that broke out between anti-CAA protesters and the police in Aligarh’s Babri Mandi area in February 2020, filed his nomination papers, through a relative, as an independent candidate from Aligarh (city) on Friday.
Vinay will be taking on BJP’s candidate Mukta Raja, the wife of sitting MLA Sanjeev Raja, who was convicted by Aligarh court for assaulting a policeman in a 22-year old case and later granted bail. Other candidates from Aligarh (city) constituency are — Congress’s Mohammad Salman Imtiaz, who is former president of AMU Students’ Union, Samajwadi Party’s former MLA, Zafar Alam and BSP’s Razia Khan.
