The election of UP chief minister Akhilesh Yadav's wife Dimple Yadav as Kannauj MP was challenged on Thursday in the Allahabad high court by a person who claimed that he wanted to contest the election but had been kidnapped by her party workers before filing the nomination.
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The petition challenging Dimple's unopposed election was filed by one Prabhat Kumar Pandey.
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Dimple was elected unopposed to the Lok Sabha seat which had fallen vacant after resignation of her husband after he assumed the state's chief ministership.
Dimple had a stunning victory in the by-election for Kannauj held in June this year which came close on the heels of the Samajwadi Party's return to power in the state.
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