Former Union minister RK Singh has appealed to the people of poll-bound Bihar not to vote for candidates who have a tainted past, including those fielded by the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA), of which his own Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is a part.

Among those who the bureaucrat-turned-politician named in his list of the dubious is Bihar’s Deputy Chief Minister and Finance Minister Samrat Chowdhury and gangster-turned-politician Anant Singh. Chowdhury, who is from the BJP, has been picked for the Tarapur constituency for the November polls while Singh, who is from the Janata Dal (United) or JD(U), has been fielded from Mokama, a seat he has represented many times in the past.

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