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Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Monday said this Uttar Pradesh assembly polls will write the country’s history for the next century and appealed to people to defeat negative politics. Yadav, who is in the Mainpuri district to file his nomination from the Karhal assembly seat, also said that his “mission” is of a movement of positive politics with progressive thinking. The Samajwadi Party (SP) has declared Akhilesh Yadav as its candidate from the Karhal assembly seat, which is part of the Mainpuri parliamentary constituency represented by party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav.
“This ‘nomination’ is a ‘mission’ as this UP election will write the country’s history for the next century. Let’s take part in this movement of positive politics with progressive thinking. Defeat negative politics, remove it too. Jai Hind!” Akhilesh Yadav said in a tweet in Hindi. He also shared a picture of him leaving on the Samajwadi Vijay Rath bus for Mainpuri from his native place Saifai in Etawah. Karhal will go to the polls on February 20 in the third of the seven-phase elections in the state. Later, talking to reporters, Akhilesh Yadav said, “First of all, I want to thank the people of Mainpuri and the people of the organisation, who have given me a chance that today I am nominated from Karhal for contesting the elections. I am going to do it.”