Dharmendra Yadav: Eyeing For Badaun Seat Undeterred (image:facebook.com/SansadDharmendraYada)

Former MP Dharmendra Yadav, belong to the Samajwadi Party (SP), will be contesting from Uttar Pradesh’s Badaun in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.

He is a cousin of SP chief Akhilesh Yadav. His father Abhay Ram Yadav is the younger brother of Mulayam Singh Yadav and elder brother of Shivpal Singh Yadav.

Dharmendra Yadav, aged 44, was elected to the 14 Lok Sabha in 2004 from Mainpuri (by-election). Following, he had contested the Lok Sabha elections from Badaun for the first time in 2009 and has won the election on SP ticket. In 2014, even amidst the Modi wave in 2014, he became MP for a second term from the same Lok Sabha constituency.

However, while eyeing for a third time in 2019, he lost to the BJP candidate Dr. Sanghamitra Maurya for around 18,000 votes. Similarly, in the Azamgarh by-election in June 2022, Dharmendra Yadav lost the election by around 8,600 votes. As he is contesting for the fourth term from Badaun, Dharmendra Yadav is looking for nothing but victory.

Besides, he served a member of the standing committees on defence, rural development, information technology, and agriculture, and associated with the Consultative Committee on the Ministry of Power and Ministry of New and Renewable Energy.

The elections for Badaun Lok Sabha seat have been held 17 times so far. Among them, SP emerged victorious in six times, Congress in five times and BJP won twice. Besides, Jan Sangh, Bharatiya Jan Sangh, Bharatiya Lok Dal and Janata Dal have won from the seat for one time each.

SP’s Salim Iqbal Sherwani served as Badaun MP for four consecutive terms, and after that Dharmendra Yadav had won the seat two times consecutively.