Samajwadi Party national president Mulayam Singh Yadav will start election campaign for the by-elections in the state from September 7 by addressing meetings in Mainpuri parliamentary constituency.
“Mulayam Singh Yadav will address public meetings in support of party candidate Tej Pratap Singh Yadav on September 7 and 8. He will address five rallies,” party spokesman Rajendra Chaudhary said in a statement issued here on Tuesday.
On September 7, Yadav will address three rallies at Kasma Chauraha, Kishni and Bhogaon and the next day address meetings at Jaswant Nagar and Christian College grounds in Mainpuri.
Chaudhary said directives had been issued to all the party leaders and minister-in charge of Mainpuri parliamentary election to inform people about Yadav’s public meetings.
The by-election was necessitated in Mainpuri after Mulayam Singh Yadav vacated the seat after 2014 lok Sabha elections. Yadav had won elections from Azamgarh and Mainpuri, considered to be Samajwadi Party bastion. The party has fielded Tej Pratap Singh Yadav, nephew of Mulayam Singh Yadav, from this seat. Tej Pratap is block pramukh of Saifai.
Besides, senior party leader Shivpal Singh Yadav will address election rally in Urra Bazaar, which comes under Balhara assembly segment, onSeptember 6.By-elections to 11 assembly and one lok Sabha seats of the state are slated for September 13.