“Mainpuri is Netaji’s (Mulayam Singh Yadav) Karmabhoomi and the people have always seen him as a member of the family, so elections here will go well…” said Samajwadi Party (SP) in Mainpuri. Candidate Dimple Yadav recently spoke about her remarks. Campaign trajectory.
Dimple Yadav is confident of a “good fight” in Mainpuri in Uttar Pradesh (UP) and has regularly spoken out about his late father-in-law Mulayam Singh Yadav’s links with the seat ahead of the all-important elections. He is talking about it.
Dimple Yadav, the ‘bahu’ of the Yadav family of UP, is competing from the family’s home base where Mulayam Singh Yadav has won five times.
Dimple, once an accidental politician, is now tasked with retaining a key seat in UP’s Braj region.
The 2024 Lok Sabha elections will be the first major election in which the party will participate. Death of chief Mulayam Singh Yadav.
As a result, the stakes could not be higher for both Dimple Yadav and the Samajwadi Party (SP).
Voting for the main contest will be held in the third phase on May 7th. Mr. Dimple will take on Mr. Jaiveer Singh of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).. With Shiv Prasad Yadav of Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) entering the contest as the third candidate, what appears to be a direct showdown between the two could spell trouble for Dimple Yadav.
However, defending the main prize could be a difficult task given the current political scenario.
Not limited to Mainpuri, The neighboring city of Kannauj is a battle for SP’s prestige., party supremo Akhilesh Yadav is competing against Subrath Pathak of the Bharatiya Janata Party. It was Mr Pathak who defeated his wife Dimple by a margin of just 12,353 votes in the 2019 Kannauj general elections.
BSP has intensified the battle for the main prize this time.
Dimple Yadav currently holds the main puri, which he won in a bye vote necessitated by the death of Mulayam Sig Yadav in October 2022.
She won the seat following a wave of sympathy votes for Mulayam. This election will be her first big test.
A new challenge for Dimple Yadav is the presence of BSP candidates in the fray. The BSP had not fielded any candidate for the 2022 by-election.
The 2019 assembly elections were also a two-way battle between the BJP and the SP, with Mulayam defeating the BJP’s Prem Singh Shakya.
The BSP, which has significant influence among the Muslim community in Mainpuri, could polarize votes that have traditionally been seen as the SP’s strong voter base. Leveraging votes other than Yadav will be another challenge for the SP. This is extremely important as the SP’s voter base is believed to be the MY segment, which is Muslims and Yadavs.
BSP’s Shiv Prasad Yadav, who cut the Yadav card, claimed that the Yadav family had only reconciled with family members.
“Neither the SP nor the BJP has given tickets to the Yadav community. The five Yadavs to whom the Samajwadi Party has given tickets are only members of the Yadav family,” said BSP candidate Prasad Yadav, adding that he is not promoting Yadav candidates in the elections. He thanked Mayawati for defending him. There aren’t many seats.
Dimple is actually from a Rajput family, so Yadav’s pitch by a BSP candidate could fall under SP. She married Akhilesh Yadav in November 1999.
BSP chief Mayawati on Thursday held a rally for BSP candidates in Mainpuri and criticized the BJP, Congress and SP in unison.
“While some have speculated that the BSP could defeat one candidate and win another in the main election, it is also possible that the result could be reversed.By discrediting the BSP, Both parties could position themselves in second and third place,” Mayawati said. Thursday is Mainpuri.
Non-Yadav OBC votes are important for Dimple Yadav
Another challenge for Dimple Yadav may be the non-Yadav OBC voters in Mainpuri, who may not view the SP as favorably as they did when Mulayam was leading politics in the Samajwadi Party. There is sex.
Mulayam was able to attract non-Yadav votes as most voters in Mainpuri consider him a member of the family. That may no longer be the case with Dimple, who will be competing in the Main Prix.
The Bharatiya Janata Party, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Making inroads with non-Yadav-OBC voter base in UP for some timeand this could be a big threat to SP’s chances at the main prix.
Raghuraj Singh Shakya, a former SP leader who later joined the BJP, is a well-known face in the region and has been actively campaigning in seats in the region, leading the BJP under Prime Minister Narendra Modi. We are pushing forward with development policies.
Notably, Raghuraj Singh Shakya belongs to the OBC Shakya community, which is second in population in Mainpuri after the Yadavs.
SP to focus on Mulayam’s legacy in Mainpuri
Meanwhile, the SP has been emphasizing the family legacy in Mainpuri in the name of Patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav. Mainpuri MP Dimple Yadav is campaigning vigorously to retain his seat and overcome his Lok Sabha defeat in Kannauj in 2019.
Along with Akhilesh Yadav, who is away in Kannauj, his daughter Aditi Yadav also participated in the voting campaign in Kannauj.
The 21-year-old University College London student became hugely popular on social media after visiting villages and towns in the scorching summer heat.
Muslims are also being courted by the SP, albeit only in a small part of the Mainpuri constituency. However, BSP’s entry into the fray could make the Muslim vote more fragmented, which could benefit the BJP.
Although Dimple Yadav is in a good position in the election race, Dimple Yadav’s chances in Mainpuri are in doubt among Yadav voters, especially if the 2024 Lok Sabha elections are hit by the summer heat. It also depends on voter turnout. The first two phases witnessed a decline in voter turnout, including in some seats in western UP. In the summer heat.
The Yadav community, the most powerful community in Mainpuri, which has traditionally sided with the Samajwadi Party, is dissatisfied with Akhilesh Yadav’s leadership style and may even split further.
That said, defending the main seat could be a difficult challenge for Dimple Yadav and the SP’s prestige, with the presence of a BSP candidate potentially denting the SP’s voter base and the BJP’s ‘family seat’. This is especially true since we are trying to acquire “. Own it for the first time. That is why SP is banking on Mulayam’s legacy and why he has been called up for the Mainpuri fight.
