SP chief Akhilesh Yadav won't contest Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Sources

Samajwadi Party (SP) chief and former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister will not contest , according to sources. 

This comes on the last day of filing nominations for the first phase of Lok Sabha polls on April 19. The SP chief and former reportedly said that he will not contest Lok Sabha elections after the meeting in Lucknow on March 27. 

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SP workers had earlier urged Akhilesh Yadav to contest Lok Sabha elections from seat, once represented by jailed SP leader Azam Khan. Also, there were speculations earlier that Akhilesh might contest the Lok Sabha elections from Kannauj, a seat that his late father and wife had represented before. 

Akhilesh, who is currently (MLA) from Karhal had won Lok Sabha elections from Azamgarh seat in 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

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March 27 was  last date of  filing nomination papers for the first phase of the Lok Sabha Elections 2024 scheduled on April 19. Polling will be held in 102 Lok Sabha seats, in the first phase.  

The seven-phase Lok Sabha Elections 2024 will begin on April 19. The results will be announced on June 4. Akhilesh Yadav's SP is contesting the upcoming general elections in alliance with the Congress party.

The Congress will contest 17 seats while the SP and other parties of the alliance will field its candidates in 63 of the 80 parliamentary seats in Uttar Pradesh.  In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the (BJP) had won 62 of the 80 seats in Uttar Pradesh, the BSP won ten seats, the SP won five and the Congress won just one seat.