Muslim voters may be deciding factor

KAISERGANJ (BAHRAICH): Muslims, who constitute 30 per cent of voters, could be the deciding factor in the Kaiserganj parliamentary seat. Quadrangular fight is expected here.
As many as 23 candidates are in the fray. Mohammad Aleem Ansari of the Congress, Brij Bhushan Saran Singh of SP, Lalta Prasad Misra of BJP, Surendra Nath Awasthi `Puttu Awasthi' of BSP, Zameer Ahmed of Ambedkar National Congress, Manoj Kumar of Lok Dal, Dayaram of Peoples Democratic Forum, Ram Prakash of Republican Party of India (A), Ramendra Deo Pathak of Peace Party, Hafeez of Apna Dal are trying their luck.Besides this, Anokhilal, Om Prakash, Udairaj, Chandra Bhan, Jagdish, Jagdish Prasad, Jitendra Bahadur, Param Hans Singh, Raj Kishore Singh, Radhey Shyam Bote, Rampher alias Kunti, Dinesh Kumar and Vimal Verma are contesting as Independent candidates.
The Muslim voters hold the key. Brij Bhushan Singh, who was associated with the BJP for long, is contesting from Samajwadi Party. However, his association with the saffron party may not go down well with the minority voters. This time, former Union ministers Beni Prasad and Arif Mohammad Khan are not contesting.