{"id":504547,"date":"2024-03-13T17:09:58","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T11:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=504547"},"modified":"2024-04-16T18:32:04","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T13:02:04","slug":"bhojpuri-singer-pawan-singh-lok-sabha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/politics\/bhojpuri-singer-pawan-singh-lok-sabha\/","title":{"rendered":"Bhojpuri singer Pawan Singh takes U-turn, says will contest Lok Sabha elections to fulfil promise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bhojpuri singer Pawan Singh took a U-turn on Wednesday week after opting out of the Lok Sabha elections race saying he will contest the general election to fulfil the promise that he had made to his society, people and mother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taking to X, the Bhojpuri star informed about it and said that everyone&#8217;s blessings and cooperation are expected. Earlier on March 3, Singh had said he would not be able to contest the elections from Asansol, just a day after his name was included in the first list of 195 candidates announced by the\u00a0BJP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"hi\" dir=\"ltr\">\u092e\u0948\u0902\u0905\u092a\u0928\u0947 \u0938\u092e\u093e\u091c \u091c\u0928\u0924\u093e \u091c\u0928\u093e\u0930\u094d\u0926\u0928 \u0914\u0930 \u092e\u093e\u0901 \u0938\u0947 \u0915\u093f\u092f\u093e \u0939\u0941\u0906 \u0935\u093e\u0926\u093e \u092a\u0942\u0930\u093e \u0915\u0930\u0928\u0947 \u0915\u0947 \u0932\u093f\u090f \u091a\u0941\u0928\u093e\u0935 \u0932\u0921\u0942\u0901\u0917\u093e <br>\u0906\u092a \u0938\u092d\u0940 \u0915\u093e \u0906\u0936\u0940\u0930\u094d\u0935\u093e\u0926 \u090f\u0935\u0902 \u0938\u0939\u092f\u094b\u0917 \u0905\u092a\u0947\u0915\u094d\u0937\u093f\u0924 \u0939\u0948<br>\u091c\u092f \u092e\u093e\u0924\u093e \u0926\u0940<\/p>&mdash; Pawan Singh (@PawanSingh909) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PawanSingh909\/status\/1767823004040380708?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 13, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>His decision to opt out of the general election race on March 3 came after a significant social media backlash against the singer\u2019s songs that contain objectionable references to Bengali women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After his name was included in the BJP list, he extended his gratitude to BJP leadership for trusting him and announcing his name as the candidate from Asansol. Adding that, he said but due to some reason, he won\u2019t be able to contest the elections from Asansol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The selection of Singh, who hails from Bihar, for the Asansol seat had caused a controversy. Many have raised concerns over his discography, which includes several songs with derogatory references to Bengali women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The criticism on social media did not go unnoticed, and the BJP reportedly anticipated that Singh\u2019s candidacy might harm its chances in Asansol. Thus, a decision was made to drop him, and he was informed accordingly. Following this, Singh tweeted that he was withdrawing from the race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The current representative of the Asansol Lok Sabha seat is Shatrughan Sinha from the Trinamool Congress party. Sinha won the by-poll held in 2022 after Babul Supriyo, a singer-politician who won the seat for BJP in the 2014 and 2019 general elections, switched to Trinamool Congress. TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee had tweeted about the strength and resilience of the people of West Bengal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier on March 3, Singh had said he would not be able to contest the elections from Asansol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":504549,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Bhojpuri singer Pawan Singh takes U-turn, says will contest Lok Sabha elections to fulfil promise","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[162562,1497,4,125714],"tags":[1637,151718],"yst_prominent_words":[],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2024\/03\/13162534\/1709472861_pawan-singh.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504547"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504547"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=504547"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=504547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->