Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Monday indicated that his party could field a candidate in the next election from the high-profile Amethi Lok Sabha seat, which it used to leave for the Congress.
Yadav, who was in Amethi on Sunday for the wedding of influential party leader and former UP minister Gayatri Prasad Prajapati’s daughter, gave the indication in a tweet in Hindi.
“I was deeply saddened to see the plight of the poor women in Amethi. VIPs have always won and lost here, yet the condition is like this here; what to say about the rest of the state,” he tweeted along with two photographs of women sitting on the ground.
“Next time Amethi will not elect big people but those with big hearts. SP takes a pledge to eradicate poverty from Amethi,” he added.
The Amethi Lok Sabha seat, which was considered a Congress pocket borough, is presently represented by BJP leader Smriti Irani, who defeated Congress leader Rahul in 2019.
On Sunday too, Yadav had hit out at the BJP. Without taking the name of Union minister Irani, he had asked people of the constituency to defeat her in the 2024 polls.
“‘Cylinder waali’ is the MP from this place. Definitely defeat her,” he had said, adding: “Earlier, the BJP people used to carry cylinders on their heads. Today, inflation is at an all-time high, but they have no answers.”