Why Akhilesh Yadav Chose Karhal, a ‘Safe’ Socialist Bastion & Not a Family Seat

 The Samajwadi Party has pronounced that its boss and previous boss pastor Akhilesh Yadav will challenge the impending Assembly decisions in Uttar Pradesh from the Karhal seat in Mainpuri locale.

 

This comes scarcely a day after hypotheses that Akhilesh would challenge from the Gopalpur seat in Azamgarh area.

 

WHY DID AKHILESH YADAV CHOOSE KARHAL?

 Karhal is a SP stronghold – the party has won the seat six out of multiple times since its arrangement. In any case, even before that, the seat has been overwhelmed by SP’s antecedents, similar to the Janata Party, Lok Dal, and Bharatiya Kranti Dal.

 

The communist base in the state returns much further – in the principal Assembly appointment of Uttar Pradesh in 1951, the Karhal West seat was won by the Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party, and in 1957, by the Praja Socialist Party.

 

Yet, Karhal isn’t a seat that has been addressed by the Yadav family.

 

The family’s home turf is the Jaswantnagar seat in Etawah locale, by and by addressed by Akhilesh’s uncle Shivpal Singh Yadav. Shivpal has held Jaswantnagar starting around 1996, addressing the seat multiple times.

 

Mulayam Singh Yadav had addressed Jaswantnagar from 1967 to 1993, losing only once, during the Congress wave of 1980. He had likewise addressed Gunnaur and Bharthana before.

 

This time, the Jaswantnagar seat has been designated to Shivpal’s Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohia), and almost certainly, he or his child would challenge from the seat.

 

Here and there, Akhilesh picking Karhal is emblematic of his political informing – it mirrors his endeavors to extend himself as a communist chief (his Twitter bio says, ‘communist head of India’), and not one who is only a result of the Yadav family heritage.

 

That is the reason it’s significant he picked a seat with an old communist association, yet not a seat that has prior been held by his dad or uncle.