On Tuesday, Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Dimple Yadav filed her nomination papers for the Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat. Accompanied by SP chief and husband Akhilesh Yadav, as well as senior party leaders Shivpal Singh Yadav and Ram Gopal Yadav, she filed her papers.
Voting in Mainpuri is slated for the third round of the seven-phase Lok Sabha elections, scheduled for May 7. Dimple Yadav won Mainpuri seat in the 2022 Lok Sabha bypoll after it was vacated following the death of SP patriarch and her father-in-law Mulayam Singh Yadav.
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The SP leader is pitted against BJP candidate Jaiveer Singh and BSP’s Shiv Prasad Yadav.