Lok Sabha elections 2024: Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav files nomination in UP's Kannauj
Samajwadi Party head Akhilesh Yadav
Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav will contestthe 2024 Lok Sabha election from Uttar Pradesh's Kannauj, the seat that has sent him to parliament three times.Akhilesh Yadav, a former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, on Thursday (Apr 25)filed his papers from Kanuaj.
#WATCH | Uttar Pradesh: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav files his nomination from Kannauj, Subrat Pathak.
(Video Source: District PRO)#LokSabhaElections2024 pic.twitter.com/Iy6PWFpqd2 — ANI (@ANI) April 25, 2024
He won from this seat three times. His wife, Dimple Yadav, and father, the late Mulayam Singh Yadav, also contested this seat in the past.
Akhilesh Yadav's homecoming
Yadav's return to Kannauj means that SP leader Tej Pratap Singh Yadav, whowas nominatedas the candidate earlier this week, will not run for this seat. Tej Pratap Yadav is Akhilesh Yadav's nephew and the grandson of Mulayam Yadav's brother Ranveer. He won the Mainpuri seat in the 2014 election.
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According to reports, the change was due to tension among SP workers on the ground, who wanted the party head to run for the family seat. Yadav had previously decided against running in this election because he needed time to develop his overall strategy.
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Kannauj: An ex-bastion of Samajwadi Party
Kannauj was a bastion of the Samajwadi Party till the BJP's Subrat Pathak won in 2019.The seat was won by Akhilesh Yadav in the 2000 by-election, and he held it in the general elections of 2004 and 2009.
Dimple Yadav, Akhilesh Yadav's wife, won the seat in 2012 by-polls. She retained it in the 2014 election but lost to BJP's Subrat Pathak in 2019. She was later fielded from Mainpuri in the 2022 by-poll following the death of Mulayam Singh Yadav. She is again contesting from the Mainpuri seat in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
In this election, the SP has allied with the Congress-led INDIA Bloc. It is contesting 63 of Uttar Pradesh's 80 Lok Sabha seats. The remaining 17 havebeen givento Congress. Kannauj will vote in the fourth phase of the 2024elections,on May 13.
