CPI candidate Kanhaiya Kumar to file nomination for LS polls from Bihar’s Begusarai today

Votes will be cast in Bihar's Begusarai during the fourth phase of polls on April 29.

For the elections, Kanhaiya Kumar had launched an online crowdfunding platform to collect money to contest the elections./ IMAGE: TWITTER/ kanhaiyakumar

NEW DELHI: The Communist Party of India’s Kanhaiya Kumar will file nomination for the Lok Sabha election 2019 from Begusarai seat in Bihar today. In the constituency, he is locked in a keenly-watched triangular contest with RJDs Tanveer Hassan, BJP leader and Union minister Giriraj Singh. For the elections, Kanhaiya Kumar had launched an online crowdfunding platform to collect money to contest the elections. "Like every drop of water fills an earthen pot, (your) donation of Re 1 to my campaign fund will help me to fight the election and take the voice of the marginalised and exploited to Parliament," he said. Earlier, Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy of CPI announced that Kanhaiya Kumar will contest from Begusarai Lok Sabha constituency in Bihar as a joint candidate of the left parties. The left parties have slammed the opposition for excluding them in the seat-sharing formula.

साथियों, कल मुझे लोकसभा चुनाव के लिए नामांकन करना है। यह चुनाव मैं अकेले नहीं लड़ रहा, बल्कि वे सभी मेरे साथ उम्मीदवार के तौर पर खड़े हैं जो शोषितों के अधिकारों के लिए संघर्ष कर रहे हैं। उम्मीद है जो साथी बेगूसराय में हैं वे समय निकालकर इस मौके पर मेरे साथ ज़रूर मौजूद रहेंगे। pic.twitter.com/zA1x0MEDqV

— Kanhaiya Kumar (@kanhaiyakumar) April 8, 2019

After being left out of the alliance by the RJD and Congress, the left parties decided to keep away from it. The former JNU leader shot to fame in 2016 and was later arrested on sedition charges following an event on hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru during which anti-national slogans were allegedly raised. On January 14, Delhi Police had filed a charge sheet in the court against Kumar and others, saying he was leading a procession and supported seditious slogans raised in the JNU campus during an event on February 9, 2016. Votes will be cast in Bihar's Begusarai during the fourth phase of polls on April 29.