If Tej Pratap Singh Yadav wins the bye-election from Mainpuri parliamentary constituency he would be the 7th member of the Yadav clan to enter either Parliament or legislature and is expected to hold key position in the party organization.
Tej Pratap, 25, who holds an MBA degree from leeds, is grand nephew of Mulayam Singh Yadav. He filed nomination papers for the Mainpuri bypolls on Friday. Mulayam had won from two constituencies of Mainpuri and Azamgarh in 2014 lok Sabha eelctions. He retained Azamgarh and vacated Mainpuri – considered Samajwadi Party bastion where Mulayam had won six times. The by-poll in Mainpuri is scheduled for September 13.
If he wins, Tej Pratap would be the 7th member of Mulayam’s family to occupy a seat either in Parliament or in legislative assembly. Mulayam Singh himself is MP from AZamgarh. His son Akhilesh is chief minister and daughter-in-law Dimple an MP from Kannaj.
Shivpal Singh Yadav, younger brother of Mulayam Singh Yadav is powerful minister in his Bhatija (Akhilesh’s) cabinet while Mulayam’s another cousin Ramgopal Yadav, the party general secretary and national spokesman of the party is rajya sabha member.
Two of Akhilesh’s cousins, Dharmendra and Akshay, are MPs. Akshay is Ram Gopal Yadav’s son and he was among the family members who won election in 2014. He won from Firozabad.
If Tej Pal wins he would be the sixth member of the family to enter Parliament and seventh who is member of either lok Sabha or Vidhan sabha. Tej Pratap, the son of Mulayam’s nephew Ranveer Singh Yadav who died a few years ago. He is already the Samajwadi block pramukh of Saifai, the Yadavs’ native village in Etawah.
Besides, them other members of the family who are active in politics include Ankur, son of Shivpal Singh Yadav is chairman of the cooperative federation. Akhilesh’s cousin’s wife, Premlata, is the Etawah district panchayat chief.