Akhilesh Yadav to contest UP polls from Karhal seat in party stronghold of Mainpuri

Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav will contest the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls from Karhal seat in Mainpuri district, the party’s national spokesperson Ashutosh Verma said Thursday.

Akhilesh, who is an MP from the Azamgarh seat, had on Wednesday said he would decide on contesting the polls after talking to the people of his constituency.”The party president will contest from Karhal seat of Mainpuri,” Ashutosh Verma told PTI on Thursday.

SP founder Mulayam Singh Yadav represents the Mainpuri constituency in parliament.

Ever since speculations on chief minister Yogi Adityanath’s candidature for assembly polls surfaced, there were talks about Akhilesh too contesting the 2022 polls.

Ever since speculations on chief minister Yogi Adityanath’s candidature for assembly polls surfaced, there were talks about Akhilesh too contesting the 2022 polls.

Yogi Adityanath and Akhilesh Yadav had been MPs in the past, but they had never contested assembly elections. Both took the Vidhan Parishad route to become members of the UP legislature when they became chief ministers.

Updated by Deveshi Gupta