BJP announces candidates for 3 Maharashtra Lok Sabha seats, denies ticket to Solapur MP Swami, opts for MLA Satpute to battle Congress candidate Shinde.
A CBI special court had acquitted the former Haryana MLA in an abetment to suicide of ex-sarpanch Karam Singh of Kambopura village in Karnal in January this year. When the allegations surfaced, he and the other accused transport minister OP Jain had to resign from their posts.