Akhilesh, Azam may drop assembly seats to focus on Lok Sabha polls India News – Times of India

LUCKNOW: Beyond the fight for UP, which established Samajwadi Party as BJP’s only challenger in the state, party chief Akhilesh Yadav And his colleague Azam Khan | They are expected to give up their assembly seats, not their Lok Sabha membership With an eye 2024 parliamentary elections Showdown report Pervez Iqbal SiddiquiI,
Sources said the SP is already in talks with its alliance partners to decide on replacements for Azamgarh MP Akhilesh, who won the Karhal assembly seat, and Azam, who is now the MP and MLA from Rampur.
While former Mainpuri MP Tej Pratap Yadav and former Badaun MP Dharmendra Yadav are said to be the main contenders for the Karhal seat, if and when Akhilesh vacates it, Rampur may remain a family fief as Azam’s wife Tazeen Fatima is being told the most. Pick likely.
SP has called a meeting of its newly elected MLAs on March 21. The party leadership may on that day look into candidates for the posts of leaders of the opposition in the Legislative Assembly and the Council of State. Former Leader of Opposition Ram Govind Choudhary was one of the losers in this election. Ketki Singh of Nishad Party defeated him by over 21,000 votes.