Lok Sabha polls 2024: Akhilesh Yadav to contest election from Kannauj; to file nomination tomorrow

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Akhilesh Yadav will be contesting Lok Sabha elections 2024 from Kannauj. He will be filing his nomination papers on April 25. Speaking to India Today TV, his uncle Ram Gopal Yadav said that there is no confusion regarding Akhilesh Yadav's candidate from the seat.

Earlier in the day, when he was asked about the speculations on his nomination, Yadav said, “When nomination happens then you will come to know. The question is of Kannauj's historic victory...The people have made up their minds that the INDIA Alliance is coming as the future and BJP will be history in this election…" Akhilesh had won from the Kannauj seat in 2000. Later, he represented the seat in 2004, 2009 and he left the seat after he became chief minister in 2012, and his wife Dimple Yadav won the by-election unopposed.

Later, Dimple won from the seat in 2014 but she lost to BJP's Subrat Pathak in 2019. Earlier, the Samajwadi Party (SP) declared Tej Pratap Yadav as its candidate from the seat. When asked whether he will contest from the seat or Tej Pratap will remain the party's candidate, Yadav told reporters, "See, when there are nominations, you will get to know.

Maybe you will get to know before nominations also." When asked whether party workers of Kannauj wanted him to contest from the seat, Yadav said, "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 INDIA bloc. People are going to vote against the NDA.