Akhilesh Yadav, Azam Khan resign from Lok Sabha to build SP's turf in UP
New Delhi, March 22: Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav and party founder Azam Khan resigned from the Lok Sabha on Tuesday.
The SP supremo handed over his resignation to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla.
Akhilesh Yadav and Azam Khan tendered their resignation from the Lower House after winning the recently concluded Uttar Pradesh assembly elections 2022 from the Karhal and Rampur Assembly seats, respectively. Both the leaders have apparently decided to retain their Assembly seats in a bid to give a push to the party in the state.
In the 2019 general elections, the Samajwadi Party won five Lok Sabha seats. After the Speaker accepts the resignations, the party's strength will be reduced to three.
Akhilesh Yadav will lead the Samajwadi Party in the state and serve as the opposition leader in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly, according to Samajwadi Party sources.
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Azam Khan, on the other hand, has been slapped with a number of cases by the UP government on charges of land grab among others and is in jail currently.
The decision of the SP leaders also is apparently influenced by the decimation of the BSP, which won just one Assembly seat in the 2022 state elections.
Former Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav's Samajwadi Party came in second place in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh elections, winning 111 seats, up from 47 in 2017 and receiving 32.06 percent of the vote.
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