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Akhilesh Yadav To Contest From Stronghold Karhal In Central UP

Lucknow: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav will contest next month’s Assembly election – his first – from the Karhal seat in Mainpuri district, which is in his family’s home turf.

Karhal is one of five Assembly seats that make up the Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat, which elected Mr Yadav’s father, and Samajwadi Party founder, Mulayam Singh Yadav to the Lok Sabha five times.

In November, Akhilesh Yadav told reporters he would not contest the election. His party, however, had other ideas and rushed to clarify that a final decision would be taken by the collective.

The Samajwadi Party has a lot of dominance in the Karhal assembly seat. Baburam Yadav had fought for the first time on behalf of the SP from Karhal in the year 1995. He became MLA from this seat thrice. In the year 2002, BJP’s Sobran Singh Yadav won the elections. From the year 2007 till now, only Sobran Singh Yadav has won the election on this seat thrice. Seeing this figure of victory, SP workers are claiming the victory of Akhilesh Yadav.

UP votes in a seven-phase poll that begins February 10, with results due exactly one month later.

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Political Stir Over Meeting Of CM And Former CMs In Madhya Pradesh

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Bhopal: Rajya Sabha MP Digvijaya Singh sat on a Dharna one km away from chief minister’s office on Friday after CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan allegedly cancelled their meeting to discuss issue of displacement of villagers due to the Tame Irrigation project.

The political drama began when the photos and videos of a meeting of Chouhan with MP Congress Committee president Kamal Nath at the state hangar in Bhopal went viral on social media.

After meeting with the CM, Kamal Nath joined the protest with Digvijaya Singh. Nath also got angry on media persons for asking questions on the purpose of his meeting with the CM.

Digvijaya Singh said he sought a time to meet the chief minister to discuss the matter of compensation against the displacement of villagers after five thousand hectares of land submerged due to the Tame irrigation project of Suthalia of Rajgarh, Bhopal and Vidisha districts. “More than 1500 families will be displaced but they are not getting enough compensation,” said Singh.

Singh said the CM’s office gave him time at 11 .15 am on Friday for meeting but he was informed on Thursday that the meeting was cancelled.

Singh said he will reach on time and will stage a protest because the CM has no time to listen to the issues of common people.

However, the meeting was cancelled as the CM went to attend a function in Dewas.

After the video of their meeting went viral on social media, Nath said, “We met accidentally as I was returning from the Chhindwara and the CM was leaving for Dewas. It was a courtesy meeting.”

He further said, “After I came to join Dharna, Digvijaya Singh informed me that he was seeking time for the past one-and-a-half months but the CM has no time to listen to him. We will stage protest with villagers who are being displaced without proper compensation.”

Later, the CM also said that we were crossing each other at state hangar and it was just a cordial meeting. “I told Digvijaya Singh to come and meet on January 23 but he is more interested in politicising the matter,” Chouhan said.

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