2019 Lok Sabha election result for Kannauj, UP: BJP’s Subrat Pathak defeats SP's Dimple Yadav in potboiler contest

Kannauj is among closely watched contests in Uttar Presh. Kwn to be a Samajwi Party bastion, Dimple Yav, wife of Samajwi party chief Akhilesh Yav, was pitted against BJP’s Subrat Pathak.

Dimple Yav loses in her party's bastion against BJP’s Subrat Pathak with a thin margin.

Taking to Twitter, she thanked people of Kannauj

Parliamentary debuts for biggest names of Samajwi Party's first family have been witnessed from Kannauj - founder Mulayam Singh Yav, his son Akhilesh Yav, and also Dimple Yav.

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When Akhilesh Yav h vacated Kannauj Lok Sabha seat to take over as Uttar Presh Chief Minister in 2012, his wife Dimple Yav contested bypolls from Samajwi Party bastion. However, after Dimple’s defeat to Congress’s Raj Babbar in 2009 bypolls in Firozab, neir SP patron Mulayam Singh Yav or Akhilesh wanted to leave any stone unturned to ensure her victory, and that did, indeed, come to pass, and n again in 2014.

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Akhilesh Yav h me his political debut from Kannauj when he contested 2000 by-poll, necessitated by Mulayam's resignation, and won by 58,000, bettering his victory margin in next election. seat has been with SP since 1998 when Preep Kumar Yav won it for party for first time.

Kannauj was also a seat of Ram Mahar Lohia (in 1967).  Interestingly, former Delhi CM and current Delhi Congress chief Sheila Dikshit became an MP from Kannauj in 1984.

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