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Atiq’s wife to join BSP today; likely to contest for mayoral post
Confirming the move, Shaista Parveen said that she is joining BSP after consulting her husband who is lodged at Sabarmati Jail in Gujarat. “I have also spoken to former chief minister and BSP chief Mayawati and will meet her after joining the party, on January 15,” she added.
Former MP and mafiosi-turned-politician Atiq Ahmad’s wife Shaista Parveen will be joining Bahujan Samaj Party at a meeting on Thursday. It is expected that Shaista Parveen will contest for the post of mayor in the upcoming municipal corporation polls on BSP ticket. Along with Shaista Parveen, other members of Atiq’s family are also expected to take primary membership of BSP, party office bearers claimed.
Confirming the move, Shaista Parveen said that she is joining BSP after consulting her husband who is lodged at Sabarmati Jail in Gujarat. “I have also spoken to former chief minister and BSP chief Mayawati and will meet her after joining the party, on January 15,” she added.
BSP has organised a divisional meeting of its cadres on Thursday at Sardar Patel Sansthan in Alopibagh in Prayagraj in which senior party leaders will participate. Atiq’s wife Shaista Parveen will be given membership of the party at the meeting and may also be declared party’s candidate for the post of mayor, a senior BSP leader said.
Many senior leaders of the BSP have already arrived in Prayagraj for participating in the meeting on Thursday including former MP Ghanshyam Chandra Kharwar, party’s chief coordinator of Prayagraj and Mirzapur Raju Gautam besides leaders like Amrendra Bhartiya, Jagannath Pal, and Abhishek Gautam. Party leaders said Shaista Parveen will be joining the party and its declaration will be made from the dais.
To mention, after leaving the Samajwadi Party, Atiq’s family had joined All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen and Shaista Parveen and her son Ali had even attended party chief Asaduddin Owaisi’s public meetings in Prayagraj. Shaista Parveen was expected to contest state assembly elections on AIMIM ticket but later changed her mind for some reasons.
