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Watch | Can Akhilesh Yadav Win the Karhal Seat to Enter UP Assembly for the First Time?

The SP chief will face off Union minister S.P. Singh Baghel from the Karhal assembly segment, which is considered a stronghold of SP.
The SP chief will face off Union minister S.P. Singh Baghel from the Karhal assembly segment, which is considered a stronghold of SP.
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For the first time, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav will be contesting in an assembly election. He will be facing off Union minister S.P. Singh Baghel from the Karhal assembly constituency. Baghel was once considered close to Mulayam Singh Yadav, but he shifted loyalties to BSP before joining the BJP. 

Karhal falls under the Mainpuri district, considered a stronghold of SP. The constituency will vote on February 20. Sobaran Singh Yadav of SP is the sitting legislator, who won the seat consistently from 2002 onwards.  

With the election in Karhal three days away, The Wire's Yaqut Ali was in the constituency to get the pulse of voters.

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This article went live on February sixteenth, two thousand twenty two, at fifteen minutes past seven in the evening.

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