Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav has decided to resign from Lok Sabha after being elected as an MLA from the Karhal assembly seat in the recently concluded elections.
Yadav was a member of the Lower House of the Parliament from Azamgarh.
This was the first assembly election the 48-year-old former UP chief minister had fought.
Besides him, the Samajwadi Party (SP) has four other members in the Lok Sabha, including his father Mulayam Singh Yadav.
Following this, Yadav is expected to lead the party in the state and play the role of opposition leader in the Uttar Pradesh assembly.
SP founder Azam Khan also quit for his Lok Sabha seat earlier in the day. He had won the Rampur Assembly seats.
Azam Khan has been slapped with a number of cases by the UP government on charges of land grab among others. He is in jail currently.
The decision of the SP leaders also appears to be influenced by…