SP fields Mulayam Singh Yadav from 'safest' Mainpuri LS seat
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The Samajwadi Party today released a list of six candidates for the Lok Sabha polls in Uttar Pradesh, fielding party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav from its stronghold Mainpuri. The other candidates announced include Dharmendra Yadav who will contest from Badaun, Akshay Yadav from Firozabad, Kamlesh Katheria from Etawah, Bhailal Kol from Robertsganj and Shabbir Valmiki from Bahraich, the party said. Here's more.
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Yadav represented Mainpuri in LS in 1996, 2004, and 2009
The list was signed by SP national chief general secretary Ram Gopal Yadav. The party left Mainpuri, described as its "safest" seat, for Mulayam Singh Yadav, who is MP from Azamgarh right now. He represented Mainpuri in the Lok Sabha in 1996, 2004 and 2009. In the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, Mulayam contested from Azamgarh and Mainpuri and had won both.
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In 2014, Yadav's victory margin in Mainpuri was 3.64L votes
In 2009, Mulayam Singh Yadav had won the Mainpuri seat by a margin of over 1.6 lakh votes. In 2014, the victory margin of the SP patriarch in Azamgarh was 63,204 votes, while in Mainpuri, it was a massive 3.64 lakh votes.