Lok Sabha polls: SP chief Akhilesh Yadav files nomination from Kannauj seat

April 25, 2024

Kannauj: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday filed his nomination from Uttar Pradesh’s Kannauj Lok Sabha seat.

Samajwadi Party MP Ramgopal Yadav accompanied Akhilesh while filing his nomination.

Akhilesh Yadav served as Lok Sabha MP from 2000-2012. He resigned from the Kannauj parliamentary seat in 2012 after he became the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh.

In 2017, his party was unable to form a government in UP and he submitted his resignation to the Governor. He was elected Lok Sabha MP in 2019 and went on to be elected to the UP Assembly in 2022.

Following the UP Assembly polls, Yadav resigned as Lok Sabha MP and retained his state assembly seat.

Voting on the Kannauj seat will be held in the fourth phase of the Lok Sabha election on May 13.

Earlier, the party declared Tej Pratap Yadav, Akhilesh’s nephew and son-in-law of RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav, as its candidate.