List includes the name of party patriarch Mulayam Singh indicating that the tiff between father and son has finally settled down
Close on the heels of Congress declaring its first list of candidates for Uttar Pradesh, the Samajwadi Party also came out with its first list of 6 candidates on Friday. Interestingly, the list includes the name of party patriarch Mulayam Singh indicating that the tiff between father and son have finally settled down. Mulayam will contest from SP stronghold Mainpuri.
In 2014 Lok Sabha elections, Mulayam Singh had fought from both Mainpuri and Azamgarh but chose to retain the latter. The Mainpuri seat was later won by Tej Pratap Singh Yadav, a member of the Yadav family.
Mainpuri is considered one of the safest SP seats as in 2014 Mulayam Singh's victory margin here was a whopping 3.64 lakh against 63, 204 in Azamgarh. In 2009 too, Singh had won by a margin of over 1.6 lakh votes in Mainpuri. Incidentally, amid indications of Congress joining an alliance with SP-BSP-RLD, the SP on Friday created a flutter by declaring Dharmendra Yadav as a candidate from Badaun where the Congress has already fielded Saleem Iqbal Shervani. A heavyweight candidate, Dharmendra has won Badaun seat three times. On the rest of the seats, however, there is no clash between the two parties. Ram Gopal Yadav's son Akshay will contest from Firozabad, from where he had won the last parliamentary elections.
Others on the list are candidates on the reserved seats for SC - Kamlesh Katheria from Yadav family's home turf Etawah, Bhailal Kol from Robertsganj and Shabbir Ahmad Balmiki from Bahraich. Kol, an MLA from Chanbe constituency, is eyeing for a bigger post in Lok Sabha. Shabbir Ahmad Balmiki had contested from Bahraich in 2014 but lost to BJP's Savitri Bai Phule who recently has shifted to Congress. In case Congress and other opposition parties go for an alliance in UP, they will have to drop and adjust some of their candidates.
Strong Bastion
Mainpuri is consider-ed one of the safest SP seats as in 2014 Mulayam Singh’s victory margin here was a whopping 3.64 lakh against 63, 204 in Azamgarh.
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