Mainpuri Lok Sabha Constituency: Samajwadi Party’s Dimple Yadav to take on BJP’s Jaiveer Singh

Dimple Yadav, SP:

Dimple Yadav, current SP MP from Mainpuri and wife of former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, will be contesting from the seat again. Mainpuri is the stronghold of the Yadav family, and the constituency has been represented by former UP CM and Dimple’s father-in-law Mulayam Singh Yadav in the past.

In 2022 by-election Dimple Yadav, Mulayam’s daughter-in-law, won by 2.88 lakh votes, three times the party patriarch’s victory margin in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections when he secured the seat for the fifth time.

While the bypoll to the Mainpuri parliamentary seat was necessitated by Mulayam’s death in October, the disqualification of SP’s Azam Khan and BJP’s Vikram Singh Saini as MLAs from Rampur and Khatauli led to the by-elections on these two assembly seats. Azam lost his Assembly membership from Rampur, which he won in 2022 for 10th time, following his conviction in a hate speech case.

Jaiveer Singh, BJP:

Uttar Pradesh minister Jaiveer Singh is the BJP’s pick from Mainpuri against Dimple Yadav. After the announcement of his name, he said Dimple had won in the bypoll riding on sympathy wave over SP patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav’s death but the “time has crossed” now.

Singh said the people are asking about her work in the constituency and claimed that she has no satisfactory answer to it.

The BJP has declared Tourism minister Jaiveer Singh Thakur as its candidate from Mainpuri which will go to vote in the third phase on May 7.

Singh had been in Congress and in the SP during Akhilesh Yadav’s government in the state from 2012-17 before switching over to the BJP in 2017.