LS polls: SP's Dimple Yadav files nomination from Mainpuri seat
Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Dimple Yadav filed her nomination papers from the Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat here on Tuesday. The sitting Mainpuri MP was accompanied by SP chief and her husband Akhilesh Yadav, and senior party leaders Shivpal Singh Yadav and Ram Gopal Yadav.
Talking to media persons later, the SP chief exuded confidence that Dimple Yadav would win from this seat by record votes.
«Mainpuri has always made SP win by record votes and this time too it is going to make Dimple Yadav and the SP win by record votes,» he said.
The former Uttar Pradesh chief minister also used the occasion to hit out at the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
«BJP is a party which tells lies, all its promises are lies. MPs are not able to tell about their achievements,» he said, adding the manner in which inflation is at its peak and there is unemployment, people are fed up of all this and are going to vote against them.
«When farmers and youth are unhappy, the government is wiped away,» he said.
When asked about the prospects of the ruling party which is claiming victory on all the 80 Lok Sabha seats, he said, «BJP faces challenge on all 80 seats. There is a contest only on one seat. On all the remaining seats, it is going to lose.»
Replying to a question on electoral bonds, he said it is extortion not donation.
The capitalists who have made payments have hiked the prices. Such corruption had never taken place earlier, the SP chief said, adding that BJP candidate from Mainpuri Jaiveer Singh has already accepted defeat.
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