Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections: BJP pitches Union minister SP Singh Baghel against SP chief Akhilesh Yadav

Lucknow: Union Minister Satya Pal Singh Baghel on Monday filed his nomination papers from Karhal Assembly constituency to take on Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections. Baghel, 61, is the Lok Sabha MP from Agra and the minister of state for law and justice in the Union government. He

filed his nomination minutes after Akhilesh submitted his papers.

The minister is a four-time MP and was earlier a cabinet minister in the UP government. Karhal will go to the polls on February 20, the third of the seven-phase Assembly polls in the state.

Akhilesh said his “mission” was “positive politics with progressive thinking”. “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. Jai Hind!" Yadav tweeted in Hindi.

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The Karhal constituency is just four km from Saifai, the native village of SP patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav. Except for 2002, the constituency has been with the SP since 1993.