1 Apr : A defiant George Fernandes on Wednesday filed his nomination for the Muzaffarpur seat as an independent after Bihar’s ruling JD(U), the party he belongs to, refused him the ticket.
Fernandes, the NDA convenor, filed his papers before the Muzaffarpur district magistrate and returning officer Bipin Kumar.He was accompanied by former Union minister of state for external affairs Digvijay Singh, former chief minister Jagannath Mishra, former JD(U) vice-president Ramjivan Singh and former state minister Ganesh Prasad Yadav.
Fernandes had on Tuesday told the media that he would not contest the election as an independent but had refused to name the party on whose ticket he intended to fight.
"Janata ki adalat mein faisla hoga (the matter will be decided in the people’s court)," a frail-looking Fernandes, one of the leading lights of the socialist movement, told the battery of journalists during a brief interaction before submitting his papers.
