PK fields Army ex-vice chief Krishna Singh for Bihar bypoll

PATNA: Prashant Kishor's Jan Suraaj Party Wednesday named former vice chief of army staff, Lieutenant General Krishna Singh, as its candidate for bypoll to Tarari assembly seat in Bihar.
The announcement came at a presser addressed by Prashant Kishor, and party's working president Manoj Bharti, a retired diplomat-turned-politician.
Kishor disclosed that the fledgling party would name its candidates for three other seats, where bypolls are due next month, within a few days, even as he asserted that the candidature of Lt Gen Sinha, "the only vice chief of army staff from Bihar besides late S K Sinha", was a matter of pride for Tarari which had become "synonymous with illegal sand-mining and other mafia".
Notably, bypoll has been necessitated for the seat following the election to LS of Sudama Prasad, a CPI(ML) neta whose party is a part of the INDIA bloc.
Lt Gen Singh said he was "not happy" with the Agniveer scheme which, incidentally, had met with stiff opposition when it was rolled out a couple of years ago.