Lucknow: Amid speculations whether or not or not Samajwadi Get together (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav will contest the Lok Sabha polls, Akhilesh additional intensified the suspense by saying: “Let the auspicious day come…On Navratri day, you’ll get all the data…whosoever our employees (in Kannauj) need would be the face (right here)”.
Akhilesh made the remark at a press convention in Kannauj after a employees’ rally within the constituency that marked his debut in Parliament and initiation into politics in 2000.
Navratri falls in mid-April.
The SP management in Kannauj, the district outfit and employees had already been asking for over a yr that Akhilesh contest the Lok Sabha ballot once more.
Kannauj is the one ‘Yadav clan’ constituency the place the SP has not declared its candidate but. in all different such constituencies like Mainpuri, Badaun, Azamgarh and Firozabad, the4 SP has introduced candidates. Initially, there have been speculations that Akhilesh would possibly contest both Azamgarh or Kannauj seat or each.
However final fortnight the social gathering introduced Akhilesh’s cousin and former Badaun MP Dharmendra Yadav because the candidate for the Azamgarh seat. Subsequently, when Akhilesh met jailed SP chief and former Rampur MP Azam Khan in Sitapur jail, he proposed that Akhilesh contest from Rampur. Nonetheless, Maulana Mohibullah, the Imam of Delhi’s Parliament Avenue mosque was introduced as Rampur candidate. Thereafter, there was recent hypothesis that Akhilesh won’t contest the LS 2024 polls in any respect and focus completely on the election organisation and marketing campaign of the social gathering.
Nonetheless, his going to Kannauj, assembly the social gathering outfit and holding a employees’ convention there triggered recent conjectures. —The constituency goes to polls within the fourth part on Could 13.