Within the run as much as the Lok Sabha elections 2024, Akhilesh Yadav led Samajwadi Get together in the present day introduced its first checklist for the parliamentary polls. Within the first checklist, the SP annouced names of 16 candidates together with Dimple Yadav, spouse of Akhilesh Yadav. Dimple Yadav is at the moment a member of Lok Sabha from the Mainpuri seat. The announcement of seats by the get together comes after the Samajwadi Get together claimed a seat-sharing take care of Congress giving the latter 11 Lok Sabha seats out of the 80 within the Uttar Pradesh. By asserting the primary checklist, the SP has turn into first get together to announce candidates for the Lok Sabha seats.
In a transfer which will alienate Congress, the SP additionally fielded its candidate on Lucknow seat which Congress was demanding from Akhilesh Yadav. The SP fielded Ravidas Mehrotra from the seat. On this first checklist, the Samajwadi Get together has fielded three members of the family of Akhilesh Yadav – spouse Dimple Yadav from Mainpuri, Akshay Yadav from Firozabad and Dharmendra Yadav from Badayun. The get together additionally fielded Shafiqur Rahman Barq from the Sambhal Lok Sabha seat.
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Within the first checklist of the Samajwadi Get together (SP), there are 11 candidates from the Different Backward Lessons (OBC), 1 Muslim, 1 Dalit, 1 Thakur, 1 Tandon, and 1 Khatri. Among the many 11 OBC candidates within the tickets, there are four Kurmi, three Yadav, 2 Shakya, 1 Nishad, and 1 Pal. SP has given a ticket to a Dalit candidate for the Ayodhya Lok Sabha seat (Common class). For the primary time in Etah and Farrukhabad, SP has given tickets to leaders from the Shakya group as a substitute of Yadavs.
Samajwadi Get together has provided seven seats to Rashtriya Lok Dal and 11 seats to Congress. Within the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, the NDA had received 64 seats, the Bahujan Samaj Get together of Mayawati 10 seats, Samajwadi Get together 5 seats, and Congress one seat. The BJP is prone to contest the Lok Sabha polls in Uttar Pradesh in alliance with Apna Dal (S) and Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Get together.
