Poonam Sinha on Thursday filed her nomination as the Samajwadi Party’s Lok Sabha candidate from Lucknow , the constituency where the BJP has fielded Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh . Lucknow: Poonam Sinha, SP-BSP-RLD candidate from the Parliamentary constituency files her nomination for #LokSabhaElections2019 pic.twitter.com/5j4jW5d0FrHer candidature was announced by SP president Akhilesh Yadav, a day after Poonam Sinha joined his party. Poonam Sinha had joined the SP in the presence of party leader Dimple Yadav in Lucknow on Tuesday, the day when the sitting MP, Rajnath Singh filed his nomination papers. Reminding people of Lucknow of the work done in the past by his party, the SP chief appealed to them to vote for Sinha. Poonam Sinha’s husband Shatrughan Sinha had recently quit the Bharatiya Janata Party and joined the Congress .

Source: Huffington Post April 18, 2019 06:45 UTC