“Don’t take it too seriously,” is what Malkajigiri’s MP candidate from Lok Satta, Jayaprakash Narayan said, when cornered on one of the points of his manifesto, leaving a vast number of electorate stunned. Residents of Alwal had invited Narayan to a public interaction to question him on his party’s manifesto after many residents raised objections to the party’s promise to pay pension to the families of people who die from excessive alcohol consumption. JP, who was in the eye of a storm recently after a sting operation by a news channel showed his Delhi-unit president bragging about his ability to influence top leaders and work for certain vested interests, sought to defend the manifesto, saying it would cost the state ...

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