LUCKNOW, April 27 -- Accusations of promoting dynastic politics notwithstanding, the 2024 polls are the second successive general election when again five members of the Samajwadi Party (SP)'s first Yadav family are in the fray. Not only this, these are the only five Yadavs which the party has fielded in Uttar Pradesh this Lok Sabha polls.

They include party chief Akhilesh Yadav from Kannauj, his wife Dimple Yadav from Mainpuri, his cousins Dharmendra Yadav, Akshay Yadav and Aditya Yadav from Azamgarh, Firozabad and Budaun seats respectively.

All these seats are considered SP bastion. The Yadav family members had won all these seats in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls. Significantly, there were only five seats that the SP had won that time.

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