Dimple Yadav, two terms Samajwadi Party MP from Kannauj will not contest the 2019 parliament elections. She will vacate the seat for her husband Akhilesh Yadav, the Samajwadi Party president.
Akhilesh Yadav said here on Monday that Dimple Yadav will not contest the next Lok Sabha election. He however added “it’s my desire to contest the next Lok Sabha election and if I contest then it will be from Kannauj’’.
Akhilesh made this observation while talking to media at the Janeshwar Mishra Park here on Monday. He had visited the park to commemorate the death anniversary of the veteran socialist leader Janeshwar Mishra.
SP president said his father Mulayam Singh Yadav desires to contest the next Lok Sabha election from his traditional seat Mainpuri. Presently he is MP from Azamgarh Lok Sabha constituency. Akhilesh Yadav is presently the member of State Legislative Council and his term ends in May next.
In a bid to set its house in order ahead of the crucial 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the opposition Samajwadi Party is desperate to settle the issue of Lok Sabha seats to be contested by the members of the first family of the party.
Presently SP has five MPs in Look Sabha and all are from the first family of the party. They include Mulayam Singh Yadav (Azamgarh), his daughter in law Dimple Yadav (Kannauj) his grandson Tejpratap Yadav (Mainpuri) his nephew Dharmendra Yadav (Badaun) and his nephew Akshay Kumar (Ferozabad).
Akhilesh Yadav made debut in politics in 1999 by winning his first election from Kanauj Lok Sabha seat. He again won from this seat in 2004 and 2009 Lok Sabha elections. In 2009 he had also contested and won from the Ferozabad Lok Sabha seat. Akhilesh Yadav had vacated the Ferozabad Lok Sabha seat and retained Kannauj seat. In the ensuing by election in October 2019 his wife Dimple Yadav made debut from Ferozabad Lok Sabha this seat and she lost the by election to the Raj Babbar of the Congress, presently the State president of the UP Congress committee.
After March 2012 State assembly elections Akhilesh Yadav was chosen as the Chief Minister of the State by the Samajwadi party. He vacated the Kannauj Lok Sabha seat and his wife Dimple Yadav was elected unopposed to Lok Sabha from Kannauj seat. In 2014 Lok Sabha elections Dimple Yadav was re-elected to Lok Sabha from the Kanauj seat.
Samajwadi party sources said Akhilesh Yadav is keen to enter Lok Sabha as he is anxious to be identified as ‘serious player’ in national politics like his father. It may be recalled that soon after the remark by the Congress president Rahul Gandhi on dynasty politics during his USA trip in 2017, Akhilesh Yadav had announced the retirement of his wife Dimple Yadav from politics and he had also said that he would contest the 2019 Lok Sabha election from Kannauj.