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After the Samajwadi party announced the names of 16 candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya said that no matter if the entire family contests, but the truth is that the SP will be finished in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
Maurya told ANI that the Modi government will win all 80 seats in Lok Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh by a huge margin. "No matter if the entire family contests, I believe that for the third time, the Modi government will win by a huge margin on all the 80 seats of Uttar Pradesh. Out of 100 per cent votes, 60 per cent votes are ours. Samajwadi Party's concern is about the well-being of its family," he said. "The truth is that the Samajwadi Party is now on the verge of becoming a 'Samaptvadi Party' in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections," he added. Meanwhile, the SP has fielded Dimple Yadav, wife of former Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav from Mainpuri and Shafiqur Rahman Barq from Sambhal and Ravidas Mehrotra from Lucknow. Dimple Yadav of the Samajwadi Party won the Mainpuri parliamentary byelection in December 2022, defeating Raghuraj Singh Shakya of the BJP by a margin of 2,88,461 votes. Considered as SP's bastion, the seat was held by party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav and it got vacated after his death on October 10. "Hoga PDA ke naam, abki ekjut matdan," the SP said. In the current Lok Sabha, the SP, that had fought in alliance with the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in 2019, has three MPs while BSP has 10 MPs. Sonia Gandhi, who represents the Rae Bareli seat, is the lone Congress MP from the State. On January 19, the SP and RLD had announced their alliance for the Lok Sabha election, with SP leaving seven seats in western Uttar Pradesh for the RLD. (ANI)
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