Samajwadi Party supremo Akhilesh Yadav will contest the 2019 Lok Sabha polls from Uttar Pradesh's Kannauj, which is represented at present by wife Dimple Yadav, while his father Maulayam Singh Yadav will contest from Mainpuri.
Akhilesh made the announcement at a meeting of SP workers at the party headquarters here.
He said : "I will contest from Kannauj while netaji (Mulayam) will contest from Mainpuri."
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