“People excited about manifesto of INDIA bloc”: SP’s Dharmendra Yadav confident of huge victory

Samajwadi Party leader Dharmendra Yadav, who is also the Samajwadi Party candidate from Uttar Pradesh’s Azamgarh, on Monday said that his party will even register a victory on the seats which it lost in the past.
Speaking to ANI, Dharmendra Yadav, the cousin of former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav also lashed out at the BJP, alleging that the ruling party which came to power over its sea of promises ‘failed’ to fulfil them.
“People trusted the promises made by BJP, youth expected jobs, farmers expected MSP, middle class and poor expected inflation to reduce, they are all disappointed. People are excited about the manifesto of the INDIA alliance. People will make the Samajwadi Party and INDIA alliance win. Those seats which Samajwadi Party couldn’t win a few times; this time we will win them as well,” Dharmendra said.
Dharmendra Yadav is contesting from the Samajwadi Party’s stronghold of Azamgarh in the Lok Sabha elections. Dharmendra Yadav contested the 2022 bypolls from Azamgarh but lost to BJP candidate Dinesh Lal Yadav ‘Nirahua’, a popular Bhojpuri singer-actor.
In the 2009 Lok Sabha polls, Dharmendra Yadav won from the Badaun seat in Uttar Pradesh. Despite facing a BJP wave in 2014, Yadav managed to retain his seat defeating BJP’s Vagish Pathak by over 1.6 lakh votes. He lost the seat in the 2019 polls, though.
In the bypolls held in 2022, Dharmendra Yadav contested from Azamgarh, but ended up on the losing side. BJP candidate Dinesh Lal Yadav ‘Nirahua’ managed to scrape through by a margin of just over 8,000 votes. Yadav will once again face the Bhojpuri singer-actor in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections