Lucknow, March 4 -- The Samajwadi Party is upbeat about its electoral prospects in Azamgarh after firming up its vote bank following the entry of Bahujan Samaj Party leader and former MLA Shah Alam alias Guddu Jamali in the party.
SP president Akhilesh Yadav is likely to contest the Lok Sabha election from this Lok Sabha constituency.
The SP has stepped up its ground work in Azamgarh with the aim to wrest the Lok Sabha seat which it lost to the Bharatiya Janata Party in the 2022 bypoll.
The Azamgarh Lok Sabha seat, which was held by SP founder Mulayam Singh Yadav in 2014 and party president Akhilesh Yadav in 2019, was lost by the party when BJP candidate Dinesh Lal Yadav Nirahua won the 2022 bypoll, defeating SP's Dharmendra Yadav. The b...