Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav, accompanied by his son Akhilesh Yadav, filed his nomination from Uttar Pradesh’s Mainpuri on Monday afternoon for the Lok Sabha elections. Mulayam Yadav won Mainpuri with huge margins in 1996, 2004, 2009, and 2014. So far, Mulayam Singh Yadav has been the only candidate who has filed nomination for the seat. Even during the Modi wave in 2014, when the BJP won 71 seats, Mulayam Singh Yadav won sailed through in Mainpuri. Apart from Mainpuri, Mulayam Singh Yadav had won parliamentary polls from Sambhal, Kannauj, and Azamgarh.

Source: Hindustan Times April 01, 2019 07:59 UTC