Samajwadi Party Releases 1st List of Candidates for Lok Sabha Polls

Guwahati: The Samajwadi Party releases its first list of six candidates on Friday for the upcoming Lok Sabha election.

The candidates include SP patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav and Akhilesh Yadav's cousins Dharmendra Yadav and Akshay Yadav respectively.

Mulayam Singh Yadav will contest from Mainpuri which has been described as its safest seat while Dharmendra Yadav will contest from Badaun and Akshay Yadav from Firozabad.

However, Akhilesh's name was not in the first list as expected.

Presently, SP patriarch represents Azamgarh constituency and represented Mainpuri three times earlier in 1996, 2004 and 2009.

Mulayam Singh Yadav contested from two constituencies in 2014- Azamgarh and Mainpuri and won both the seats. The victory margin of the former was only 63,204 and he secured a whopping lead of 3.64 lakh in the latter. In 2009 too, the SP patriarch won the Mainpuri seat by a margin of over 1.6 lakh votes.

On the other hand, Ram Gopal Yadav's son Dharmendra will contest again from the seat from the one which he had won thrice.

The other candidates who will contest are Kamlesh Katheria from Yadav family's home turf Etawah, Bhailal Kol from Robertsganj and Shabbir Ahmad Balmiki from Bahraich. The three names have been declared on the reserved seat.

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