#LokSabhaElection2019: Akhilesh Yadav to contest from UP's Azamgarh
Lucknow, Mar 24 (IBNS): The Samajwadi Party on Sunday announced that its chief Akhilesh Yadav will contest the election from the Azamgarh constituency in Uttar Pradesh for the upcoming general elections.
The announcement was made days after Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati, who is Yadav's ally partner, announced that she won't contest the elections this time.
— Samajwadi Party (@samajwadiparty) March 24, 2019
However, Mayawati had said that she will campaign for his party and ally Samajwadi Party.
In 2009, Yadav had contested the Lok Sabha polls from Kannauj and won.
He vacated the seat after he became the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh.
Alliance in Uttar Pradesh:
Mayawati's BSP has stitched an alliance with Akhilesh Yadav's Samajwadi Party (SP) to defeat the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Congress has been kept out of the alliance. However, the SP-BSP alliance left the Amethi and Rae Bareli seats which are the Congress bastions.
Though Congress left seven seats for the alliance, Mayawati stated she doesn't require the grand old party to defeat the BJP.
Why UP is significant?
Uttar Pradesh is the state which provides the maximum number of MPs to the Lok Sabha.
Out of 80 seats in Uttar Pradesh, BJP had won 71 in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. BSP had failed to open its account.
The Lok Sabha elections, which will be held in seven phases, commences on April 11.
The counting of the votes will take place on May 23.
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