In the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, political families with numerous candidates are performing well; the majority of them are either leading or winning in their respective constituencies.
Family members of the two former chief ministers, Samajwadi Party (SP) founder Late Mulayam Singh Yadav in Uttar Pradesh and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav in Bihar, as well as former prime minister and JD(S) president H D Deve Gowda in Karnataka, are the most well-known among them.
Misha Bharti and Rohini Acharya, Lalu’s two daughters, are running from Patliputra and Saran, respectively.
Five Yadav family members are running for office in Uttar Pradesh, and four of them have a sizable lead over their closest competitors.
Akhilesh Yadav, the president of the Samajwadi Party and Yadav’s son, is leading BJP candidate Subrat Pathak in Kannauj with 1.7 lakh votes.
Dimple Yadav, the spouse of Akhilesh, defeated Jayveer Singh of the BJP handily in Mainpuri, winning by a margin of 2.2 lakh.
Three of the chief of the Samajwadi Pratibha’s cousins, Akshay, Dharmendra, and Aditya Yadav, are also running in the elections.
In the elections, Gowda’s grandson Prajwal Revanna lost from the Hassan parliamentary constituency, but two of his family members won.
In the Mandya seat, the son of JD(S) head H D Kumaraswamy defeated Congressman Venkataramane Gowda by a margin of more than 2.8 lakh votes, while in the Bangalore Rural seat, Gowda’s son-in-law, Manjunath, of the BJP, defeated Congressman DK Suresh by more than 2.6 lakh votes.
Shreyas M. Patel of Congress defeated Revanna, who is accused of sexually abusing multiple women, by a margin of more than 42,000 votes.
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Yadavs, Gowdas … big political families make big gains in Lok Sabha polls
