DIMPLE YADAV TO CONTEST BYPOLL TO MAINPURI SEAT

LUCKNOW: The Samajwadi Party (SP) on Thursday fielded Dimple Yadav, wife of party chief Akhilesh Yadav, as its candidate for the Mainpuri Lok Sabha bypoll on December 5.

The seat fell vacant after the death of party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav on October 10.

“The party declares Dimple Yadav as candidate for Mainpuri bypoll,” the party announced on Twitter. The bypoll result will be declared on December 8.

Dimple was elected unopposed to the Lok Sabha from Kannauj constituency in 2012 after Akhilesh became the chief minister and resigned from the seat to enter the Uttar Pradesh legislative council.

She again won the seat in the 2014 Lok Sabha election but lost it to BJP candidate Subrat Pathak in 2019. Since 2004, the Mainpuri seat has been with the Yadav family.