Subrata Pathak, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s MP from Kannauj, has compared his electoral contest with Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav from the UP constituency with India vs Pakistan cricket match. Yadav will file his nomination from the seat today, three days after the party announced another candidate from the constituency.
“In a democracy, the election is the biggest festival. When elections are held they should be interesting…When Akhilesh Yadav sent Tej Pratap here he understood…If the match had been with Tej Pratap it would have been India vs Japan’s cricket match. Now the match would be like India vs Pakistan (Subrata Pathak against Akhilesh Yadav),” Pathak said.
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In the 2019 general elections, BJP’s Subrata Pathak had defeated Akhilesh Yadav’s wife Dimple Yadav from Kannauj.
Reacting to the remark, SP leader Ram Gopal Yadav said the MP should be sent to an asylum. He should be sent to a lunatic asylum as crazy people cannot fight the election. If he is saying this, then he is mad. He should be sent to a lunatic asylum,” he added.
On Wednesday evening, the Samajwadi Party wrote on X that Akhilesh Yadav would file his nomination papers from Kannauj today.
“National president Akhilesh Yadav will file his nomination papers from the Kannauj Lok Sabha seat at 12 pm tomorrow as Samajwadi Party candidate,” the party posted in Hindi.
Before the announcement, Akhilesh Yadav had exuded confidence in the Samajwadi Party’s victory from the seat.
“The question here is of historic victory from the seat. The BJP will become history in this election as people have made up their mind for the INDIA bloc. People are going to vote against the NDA,” he told PTI.
The decision came days after the party declared his nephew Tej Pratap Yadav as its candidate from Kannauj.
Tej Pratap, the son-in-law of Lalu Prasad Yadav, was the MP from Mainpuri between 2014 and 2019. He is a member of the Samajwadi Party.
Akhilesh Yadav has won the Kannauj seat thrice — 2000, 2004 and 2009. He vacated the constituency in 2012 after he became the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh.
Dimple Yadav was the MP of Kannauj until 2019.
Akhilesh Yadav is currently an MLA in UP’s assembly.
With inputs from PTI, ANI
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