Ground Report: Whiff of Cakewalk for Akhilesh in Family Bastion Karhal, Now a 'Most VIP' Area
News 18The sleepy town of Karhal in the “VIP” Mainpuri district of Uttar Pradesh is set to become the “most VIP” one with Samajwadi Party supremo Akhilesh Yadav deciding to contest from here for the February-March assembly polls. At the nearby Jain Inter College, where the SP national president’s father and former chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav studied for five years and also taught for almost two decades, the principal wishes that Akhilesh starts his nomination journey to the collectorate from here on January 31. Sunny Yadav, district secretary of Samajwadi Party, says Akhilesh will win by over 1.5 lakh votes and “it will be a Guinness World Record”. Sunny Yadav explains how his family elder Dada Chaudhary Nath Singh was an MLA here and was the “political guru” of Mulayam Singh Yadav.