Samajwadi Social gathering (SP) nationwide normal secretary Shivpal Yadav on Sunday vowed to undo his ‘act’ of having been instrumental in the defeat of the then sitting MP Akshaya Yadav on the Firozabad Lok Sabha seat in the 2019 parliamentary election.
The assertion by Shivpal Yadav got here even because the SP informally declared Akshaya its candidate for a similar seat for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls in the course of the celebration’s ‘Lok Jagaran Abhiyaan’ in Firozabad on Sunday.
Akshaya had completed second behind the BJP’s Chandra Sen Jadon in Firozabad in 2019 . Shivpal, who headed the Pragatisheel Samajwadi Social gathering-Lohia then, upset Akshaya’s applecart by splitting votes regardless of being in third place. Shivpal by his personal admission, and in addition the SP’s, was the only purpose for Akshaya’s defeat.
The BJP candidate Chandrasen Jadon bagged 4,95,819 votes and Akshaya 4,67,038. Akshaya misplaced by a margin of a mere 28,781 votes. Shivpal had garnered 91,869.
Akshaya Yadav would be the SP candidate for Firozabad seat for the third time in a row. He gained the seat in 2014.
On Sunday, with Akshaya Yadav standing by his aspect in Firozabad, Shivpal Yadav attacked the BJP authorities and praised Mulayam and Akhilesh Yadav governments.
“If we’re united, then we are going to present the BJP the door in the 2024 LS polls,” he stated.
Shortly after, Shivpal stated in a put up on the microblogging web site X “This time, this Chacha will trigger the victory of Akshaya in Firozabad Lok Sabha polls.”
Samajwadi Social gathering nationwide president Akhilesh Yadav, SP chief nationwide normal secretary and Rajya Sabha member Ramgopal Yadav (the daddy of Akshaya Yadav), SP nationwide normal secretary Swami Prasad Maurya, and Shivpal Yadav addressed the celebration’s cadre coaching camp in Firozabad, the fifth one in the continued sequence of celebration’s coaching camps for the 2024 polls.
Shivpal Yadav was stored away from the SP from the 2017 to 2022 UP meeting polls. In 2022, Akhilesh took Shivpal’s PSP-L onboard as an ally and gave it just one seat Jaswant Nagar which Shivpal gained. Then in December 2022, Shivpal merged the PSP-L with the SP.
The then chief minister Akhilesh Yadav and his uncle after which PWD minister Shivpal Yadav had a bitter political feud over the management of the Samajwadi Social gathering forward of the 2017 U.P. meeting polls. Akhilesh gained the feud and have become the nationwide president of the SP whereas Shivpal was ousted. Subsequently, Shivpal fashioned PSP-L. His celebration contested a number of seats in the state towards the SP. Shivpal himself contested the Firozabad seat towards the sitting MP Akshaya Yadav.
