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UP Bypoll: "Samajwadi Party will contest on people's issues" - Dimple Yadav

Mainpuri MP- Dimple Yadav

Mainpuri: Samajwadi Party MP Dimple Yadav exuded confidence in winning the Uttar Pradesh bypolls, which will be held on November 13, and said that the party is ready and all the preparations have been done.

Samajwadi Party is ready 

Dimple Yadav said, "Samajwadi Party is ready (for the bypolls). In the previous elections, the Samajwadi Party was ready. For the coming bypolls also our preparations have been done."

"We will contest the by-election on the issues of the people. Youth and women are disappointed. Health services and electricity are in a questionable state. This government is incompetent in fulfilling the dreams of the people," she added.

19 star campaigners 

On Saturday, the Samajwadi Party released a list of 19-star campaigners for the upcoming byelections to nine assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh.

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The prominent leaders in the list include SP Chief Akhilesh Yadav, the party's Rajya Sabha MP Ram Gopal Yadav, party's Jaswantnagar MLA Shivpal Yadav.

9 of the 10 vacant assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh will go to polls on November 13, except Milkipur of Ayodhya district.
The SP star campaigners list also includes party MP Dimple Yadav, Avadhesh Prasad, and Jaya Bachchan.

According to a Samajwadi Party release, prominent leaders will actively campaign to support the party's candidates in the upcoming elections. 

The Election Commission has announced by-polls for nine of the 10 vacant assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh on November 13, except Milkipur of Ayodhya district.

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Bypoll on nine seats 

The Uttar Pradesh bypolls are slated to be held on nine assembly seats, including Meerapur, Kundarki, Ghaziabad, Khair, Karhal, Phulpur, and Katehari.

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Earlier in a post on X, the SP chief highlighted that the INDIA bloc candidates would be contesting the bypoll under his party's symbol.

"It is not about seats but about winning. Under this strategy, the joint candidates of 'India Alliance' will contest all 9 seats on the Samajwadi Party's election symbol, 'cycle'.

Congress and the Samajwadi Party are united and standing shoulder to shoulder for a big victory. India Alliance is going to write a new chapter of victory in this by-election," read the post on X.

Congress to support SP 

Meanwhile, the Congress party has announced that it has decided not to field candidates in the nine assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh where bypolls are being held, said Congress in-charge Avinash Pandey on Thursday. (with Agency inputs) 

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