The Samajwadi Get together (SP) has fielded Tej Pratap Singh Yadav for the parliamentary seat in Uttar Pradesh, placing an finish to rumours that its chief, Akhilesh Yadav, would contest from Kannauj.
Get together chief Akhilesh Yadav and his partner Dimple beforehand held the seat.
RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav’s son-in-law is Tej Pratap, a former MP from Mainpuri and Akhilesh Yadav’s nephew. The former Mainpuri MP has tied the knot with Raj Laxmi Yadav, Lalu’s daughter.
Ranveer Singh, the brother of SP founder Mulayam Singh Yadav, is the grandfather of Tej Pratap. From 2014 to 2019, he was the MP for Mainpuri.
Along with Tej Pratap, the Yadav household is operating for the Lok Sabha seats in Mainpuri, Azamgarh, Badaun, and Ferozabad.
In opposition to Neeraj Shekhar of the BJP, the Get together has put up Sanatan Pandey of Ballia.
Pandey had beforehand run from this location in 2019 on the SP ticket, however Virendra Singh Mast of the BJP defeated him.
Son of former prime minister Chandra Shekhar, Neeraj Shekhar served as a member of parliament for the state of Rajasthan from 2007 to 2014, representing SP from Ballia, the seat his father had beforehand held.
Shekhar was nominated to the Rajya Sabha in 2014 however misplaced the polls to his BJP opponent. After the SP determined to not subject him within the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, he left the social gathering and joined the BJP, which promoted him to the Higher Home of Parliament.
On June 1, elections shall be held within the Ballia Lok Sabha constituency.
The Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP) received 62 of the 80 seats within the 2019 normal elections. It additionally added two seats that its ally Apna Dal (S) received. Ten seats have been received by Mayawati’s BSP and 5 by Akhilesh Yadav’s SP. In distinction, the Congress social gathering managed to safe a mere one seat.
In the meantime, Akhilesh Yadav on Monday lashed out PM Modi accsuing him of not having respect for the structure.