Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav resigns from Lok Sabha after being elected as UP MLA

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Lucknow, Mar 22, 2022: Akhilesh Yadav, leader of the Samajwadi Party, went to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla’s office on Tuesday to resign from his membership of the House. This comes after he was elected as an MLA from Karhal in the recently concluded Uttar Pradesh Assembly election.

 

Akhilesh Yadav, former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, was elected to the Lok Sabha from Azamgarh constituency in 2019.

He defeated the BJP’s SP Singh Baghel in Karhal during the recently held Uttar Pradesh Assembly election by more than 60,000 votes to become the MLA from the constituency.

In the Uttar Pradesh election of 2022, the BJP won 255 seats while the Samajwadi Party won 111. Hence, the BJP won a majority and has retained power in the state.In the 2017 election, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its allies had won 312 of the state’s 403 Assembly constituencies.

Courtesy:India Today