KANNAUJ (UP): Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday filed his nomination papers from Kannauj constituency in Uttar Pradesh for the Lok Sabha elections 2024.
After filing his nomination papers, Akhilesh Yadav told media: “I have filed my nomination papers. The sentiments of the party, leaders, workers, and everyone were that I should contest the election from here on behalf of the Samajwadi Party. I express my gratitude to everyone. I hope I will get blessings from here.”
The SP supremo accused the BJP of “deliberately stalling” the development of the region. “The BJP government has deliberately stalled the development in Kannauj as it was initiated by the SP. When I served Kannauj earlier, people saw development happening,” he said.
The SP is an alliance partner of the Congress-led I.N.D.I.A. bloc in the Lok Sabha elections. Of the total 80 Lok Sabha seats in UP, the SP and Congress are contesting 63 and 17 seats, respectively, as per a seat sharing formula.
Kannauj has been a stronghold of the SP until the BJP’s Subrat Pathak captured it with 14,000 votes in 2019. Yadav, the former UP chief minister, was a three-time MP from here. In the 2019 Lok Sabha election, he contested from Azamgarh and won the seat. But he resigned from the position after being elected to the state assembly from Karhal in 2022. His wife, Dimple Yadav, won the Kannauj seat in a bypoll in 2012. She retained it in the 2014 election but lost it to Pathak of the BJP in 2019. Akhilesh Yadav’s father and SP patriarch, Mulayam Singh Yadav, was also elected from Kannauj in the past.
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