Samajwadi Party names Dimple Yadav as its candidate for Mainpuri bypoll

Lucknow: Samajwadi Party on Thursday announced the name of Dimple Yadav as its candidate for the Mainpuri parliamentary seat, which fell vacant after the demise of party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav. The bypoll on the seat will be held on December 5.

"The party declares Dimple Yadav as party candidate of Mainpuri bypoll," Samajwadi Party said on its official Twitter handle.

समाजवादी पार्टी द्वारा लोकसभा क्षेत्र मैनपुरी उपचुनाव - 2022 हेतु श्रीमती डिंपल यादव पूर्व सांसद को प्रत्याशी घोषित किया गया है। pic.twitter.com/gZIvtETfLT — Samajwadi Party (@samajwadiparty) November 10, 2022

SP leader and former Uttar Pradesh CM Mulayam Singh Yadav passed away at the age of 82 on October 10 in the Medanta Hospital in Gurugram.  The Samajwadi Party patriarch's was cremated with state honours at his native Saifai village in Uttar Pradesh's Etawah district. 

Thousands descended to pay their last respects to their "Netaji", as he was fondly called.

Mulayam Singh Yadav had also served as the defence minister.