Lok Sabha Elections Phase 3 polling tomorrow: High-stakes battle in Samajwadi Party bastions for 3 Yadav family members

The seats successful UP going to polls see Sambhal, Hathras, Agra, Fatehpur Sikri, Firozabad, Mainpuri, Etah, Badaun, Bareilly and Aonla. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had won 8 of these seats successful 2019. The 2 remaining seats – Mainpuri and Sambhal were bagged by the Samajwadi Party (SP).

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Three members of Yadav household are successful the fray arsenic SP candidates successful signifier 3. These see erstwhile Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav’s woman Dimple Yadav, who is the SP campaigner from enactment stronghold Mainpuri. Former Member of Parliament (MP) Akshay Yadav, Ram Gopal Yadav's son, is contesting from Firozabad. Aditya Yadav, Shivpal Singh Yadav's son, is contesting from Badaun seat. 

Rajya Sabha subordinate Ram Gopal Yadav is SP patriarch precocious Mulayam Singh Yadav's cousin. Shivpal Singh Yadav is Mulayam's brother.

Three Yadav Family Candidates

The Samajwadi Party has ne'er mislaid Mainpuri spot since 1960s. SP patriarch precocious Mulayam Singh Yadav won this spot 5 times. His daughter-in-law Dimple Yadav, the sitting MP, is up against BJP’s Jaiveer Singh this time. Dimple had defeated BJP’s Raghuraj Shakya by astir 2.9 Lakh votes successful 2019. 

In Firozabad, Mulayam's nephew Akshay Yadav is contesting against BJP’s Vishwadeep Singh. In 2019, BJP’s Chandra Sen Jadon defeated Akshay Yadav by astir 30,000 votes. Akshay won the spot successful 2014, though.

And successful Badaun, debutant and different Mulayam nephew, Aditya Yadav is contesting against BJP’s Durvijay Sakya. In 2019, the BJP's Sanghamitra Maurya had defeated Mulayam's different nephew Dharmendra Yadav, a two-time MP from Badaun, by 18,500 votes. 

Mulayam Singh Yadav's Absence

The Yadav household is going to Lok Sabha polls without SP patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav, who passed distant successful 2022. The SP is contesting 2024 Lok Sabha elections successful alliance with the Congress arsenic portion of INDIA bloc. 

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The Congress has fielded candidates for 17 seats, portion successful the rest, the SP has fielded its candidates. Of the 80 seats of Uttar Pradesh, the BJP had won 62 seats portion the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) bagged 10 seats. The SP had won 5 seats, and the Congress enactment had conscionable 2 seats. 

The signifier 3 elections saw a high-pitched run by each governmental parties successful UP. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath led the BJP's run against, what they called, dynasty and appeasement authorities of the Congress and the Samajwadi Party (SP), and slammed the Opposition for declining the Ram Mandir invitation.

The SP, which has overmuch astatine involvement successful this phase, pushed its caste census transportation and alleged that the BJP volition extremity preservation and hence acceptable a people of 400 seats successful this Lok Sabha Elections 2024.

(With inputs from agencies)

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Published: 06 May 2024, 08:45 AM IST