Mulayam files nomination papers from Azamgarh

Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav filed his nomination papers from Azamgarh Lok Sabha seat on Tuesday.

The SP supremo is likely to address an election meeting at the ITI ground in Azamgarh.

On April 3, he had  filed nomination papers from Mainpuri, pledging loyalty to his traditional seat. He had said that he was contesting from Azamgarh only to counter Narendra Modi, who is in poll fray from Varanasi.

In the 2009 elections, Mulayam won the Mainpuri seat by a margin of over 1.6 lakh votes and BJP's Ramakant Yadav won the Azamgarh constituency by nearly 50,000 votes. SP candidate Durga Prasad Yadav came third in the constituency behind BSP's Akbar Ahmad Dampi.

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