144 candidates fight for 14 LS seats in 5th phase polls in UP
Altogether 144 candidates are in the fray for 14 Lok Sabha seats in the fifth phase of elections in Uttar Pradesh where voting will be held on May 20.
Samajwadi Party national president and former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has been summoned by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the illegal mining case in New Delhi tomorrow.
According to sources here on Wednesday, Akhilesh Yadav has been asked to appear as a witness in the case. Yadav himself disclosed this in a program of a private news channel in the capital.
The notice came in connection with an FIR registered over alleged illegal mining in Hamirpur from 2012-2016, when he was the Chief Minister of UP.
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The SP president said that a notice had come even before the last elections and a notice has come in this election also.
Akhilesh had said this notice of CBI is also being linked to the Lok Sabha elections.
Akhilesh Yadav has often been saying that the Congress government has already put him in the CBI club and now the BJP is also doing the same thing.
An agreement has been reached between the SP and the Congress in UP for the Lok Sabha elections. Both the parties are fighting in alliance in the state. The SP has given 17 seats to Congress under the alliance.
At the same time, the BJP claims that the party will be successful in winning all 80 seats in the state in the Lok Sabha elections 2024.
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