Dimple Yadav wins Mainpuri LS bypoll, keeps Mulayam's legacy alive
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Dimple Yadav, wife of Samajwadi Party chief and Uttar Pradesh ex-CM Akhilesh Yadav, won the Mainpuri Loka Sabha bypoll on Thursday. Dimple defeated Raghuraj Singh Shakya of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) by over two lakh votes. The bypoll was necessitated after the death of the SP patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav in October. Shakya is known to be a former associate of Shivpal Yadav.