LUCKNOW: On the final day of campaigning for the seventh and final phase of 2022 Assembly elections, Samajwadi Party chief addressed as many as eight rallies in Azamgarh, Jaunpur and Mirzapur. Curtains came down on the SP campaign with Mayank Joshi, the son of BJP MP Rita Bahuguna Joshi formally joining SP at a rally in Azamgarh where Akhilesh welcomed him into the party fold from the stage.
Retired IAS officer Kunwar Fateh Bahadur Singh – one of the most trusted bureaucrats of Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati during her stint as the UP chief minister – also formally joined Samajwadi Party at the same rally.