Will Surendra Rakesh’s son fill father’s slot?

Dehradun: The Election Commission (EC) is still to make a formal announcement in the matter -- Bhagwanpur assembly seat (reserved), in Haridwar district, represented by Surendra Rakesh, who lost a battle with cancer on Saturday, now falls vacant. Rakesh had also served as minister for transport and social welfare. He had won on a ticket of the Bahujan Samaj Party.
Sources said Surendra Rakesh’s son Subodh is considered by the Congress as a likely candidate to fill this vacancy.
Surendra Rakesh had won this seat by a huge margin in January 2012. He was suspended from his part for anti-party activity in November 2014, and then shifted allegiance to the Congress, under the influence of chief minister Harish Rawat.
Rawat has also been MP from Haridwar, winning the Haridwar parliamentary seat by a margin of about 1,40,000 votes during the last Lok Sabha polls of 2009. Being a reserved seat, Bhagwanpur is known as a BSP stronghold. OBCs and Muslims are in sizeable number here.