The by-election for the Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat might be held on December 5 and the outcome might be declared on December 8
The by-election for the Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat might be held on December 5 and the outcome might be declared on December 8
Samajwadi Party (SP) candidate for the Mainpuri Lok Sabha bypoll Dimple Yadav is more likely to file her nomination papers on Monday, a senior social gathering chief mentioned.
Her candidature is seen because the SP’s efforts to hold ahead the legacy of her father-in-law Mulayam Singh Yadav on the seat, thought of a stronghold of the social gathering since 1996. Her choice can also be seen as an try to unite social gathering cadres forward of the bypoll.
The 44-year-old spouse of Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav will file her nomination on the Mainpuri collectorate on Monday afternoon, Alok Shakya, district president of the social gathering’s Mainpuri district unit, informed PTI.
The by-election for the Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat might be held on December 5 and the outcome might be declared on December 8.
Filing of nominations for the bypoll has began, and November 17 is the final date for submitting of nomination.
The Mainpuri parliamentary seat fell vacant following the demise of Mulayam Singh Yadav on October 10.
Tej Pratap Yadav, a former Lok Sabha MP from Mainpuri and grand-nephew of Mulayam Singh Yadav, informed reporters in Saifai (Etawah) that the nomination course of can be a “simple one”.
“I feel that we are going to polls at a very tough time. One month has passed since the death of ‘netaji’ (Mulayam Singh Yadav), and the elections have been announced. (But) we are ready for it. People of Mainpuri have always shown their dedication to take forward ‘samajwadi’ (socialist) thoughts and the Samajwadi Party. I am hopeful that we will win this bypoll with a huge margin,” Mr. Tej Pratap Yadav mentioned.
The Mainpuri parliamentary constituency has 5 meeting segments – Mainpuri, Bhongaon, Kishni, Karhal and Jaswant Nagar. In the 2022 meeting elections, the SP gained the Karhal, Kishni and the Jaswant Nagar seats, whereas the BJP gained the Mainpuri and the Bhogaon seats.
Asked concerning the SP’s loss within the Mainpuri and the Bhogaon meeting seats, the previous MP mentioned, “On one seat, the margin was around 3,600, and on the other, it was 5,000. But if you take into account all the seats, the numbers are with the SP. People here have a personal and emotional attachment with Mulayam Singh Yadav-ji. In this election, people will forget bygone things and vote for the SP. Those who had not voted for the SP earlier, will vote for the party in netaji’s same,” he mentioned.
People of Mainpuri will give a befitting reply to all events who’ve fielded candidates on this bypoll to assist the BJP, Mr. Tej Pratap Yadav mentioned.
The BJP has not introduced its candidate on the seat but, whereas it’s nonetheless not clear whether or not Congress, BSP and Shivpal Yadav’s Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party-Lohia (PSPL) will contest the polls or not.
Dimple Yadav had misplaced the Lok Sabha elections in 2019 to BJP candidate Subrat Pathak from Kannauj.
In 2019, SP patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav gained the seat by a margin of greater than 94,000 votes over his nearest rival BJP’s Prem Singh Shakya.
Akhilesh’s Karhal meeting seat is a part of Mainpuri Lok Sabha constituency and so is Jaswant Nagar, which is represented by Shivpal Yadav.
Dimple Yadav was elected unopposed from the Kannauj constituency to the Lok Sabha in 2012 after Akhilesh Yadav grew to become the chief minister and resigned from the seat to enter the Uttar Pradesh legislative council.
Yadavs account for about 35 per cent of the overall 12.13 lakh voters within the Mainpuri Lok Sabha constituency whereas the remainder embrace Shakyas, Thakurs, Brahmins, Scheduled Castes and Muslims.
Source: www.thehindu.com
