'Brij Bhushan hasn't been convicted...': Nirmala Sitharaman backs Karan Singh's nomination from Kaiserganj seat

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Karan Singh getting ticket from the BJP from Kaiserganj, Sitharaman said the allegations have not been proved against Brij Bhushan. "Nothing is proven against Brij Bhushan. Nothing has been proven about it.

Even if he is convicted, I would say that you want to pass the blame on to the son. Convicted people's children have been entertained by so many parties," she was quoted news agency ANI as saying in Pune on Saturday. Meanwhile, the Indian Express quoted Sitharaman as saying, "How many people are there whose fathers, mothers or uncles have been accused of serious crimes, but they have still got tickets? All parties do it.

Even children of people who have been convicted get tickets." "And here, nothing is proven against Brij Bhushan yet. If it was, you could have asked us why. How can we decide on our own that he is doshi (guilty)?," the minister told reporters in Pune on Saturday.

When asked why the BJP didn’t give the field Brij Bhushan himself from Kaiserganj, Sitharaman said this was twisting the narrative. “We did not want to interfere with any due processes," she was quoted as saying. On Prajwal Revanna's 'sex video' case The Finance Minister also spoke about the obscene video case against Hassan's sitting MP and BJP's Lok Sabha candidate, Prajwal Revanna.

She alleged that the case regarding Revanna is with the Karnataka government, that is governed by the Congress, which did not act on the case for an entire year. "It is being claimed that the Congress have been sitting on the pen drive over the years, but now the BJP is made to answer because the party (JDS) is in alliance with the us," she said. "The state ministers knew what was there in the pen drive.