How the cycle turned full circle

In 2009, after Dimple Yadav, Samajwadi Party candidate and daughter-in-law of Mulayam Singh Yadav, lost the Ferozabad parliamentary by-election to the Congress’s Raj Babbar, people in Shikohabad, part of the same parliamentary constituency, celebrated by bursting firecrackers. For the SP, the defeat rankled like none other—Shikohabad is the birth place of Mulayam. This was a defeat that hit hard at the SP’s very existence...

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