The Lok Sabha constituency of Lucknow is all set to see a three-way contest with the Congress announcing on Tuesday, 16 April, that it is fielding Acharya Pramod Krishnam from the Uttar Pradesh capital.
Earlier on Tuesday, Shatrughan Sinha’s wife Poonam Sinha joined the Samajwadi Party in the presence of Dimple Yadav, as the party confirmed that she would be the SP-BSP-RLD candidate from Lucknow, where Union Minister Rajnath Singh will be seeking his re-election.
“She will file the nomination on 18 April,” SP leder Ravidas Mehrotra had said, as he appealed to the Congress to not field their candidate from the seat “so that BJP can be defeated.”
Sources cited by IANS a few days earlier had even suggested that the Congress had decided not to field a candidate from Lucknow and support the candidature of Sinha from the UP capital.