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Samajwadi Party Adds OBC Leader Dharmendra Kashyap Ahead 2027

By Drooid · Oct 27, 2026, 22:17 UTC · How we work

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Dharmendra Kumar Kashyap joined the Samajwadi Party on Tuesday.
He was omitted from the BJP’s Uttar Pradesh Rajya Sabha list.
Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav said Kashyap’s entry will boost the party before the 2027 Assembly elections.
Kashyap, an OBC leader, won Lok Sabha seats in 2014 and 2019 and lost in 2024.
He posted a sunset photo with “Tata Bye-Bye” on Facebook on October 7, criticizing Yogi Adityanath’s bulldozer policy.

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Dharmendra Kumar Kashyap joined the Samajwadi Party on Tuesday.
He was omitted from the BJP’s Uttar Pradesh Rajya Sabha list.
Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav said Kashyap’s entry will boost the party before the 2027 Assembly elections.
Kashyap, an OBC leader, won Lok Sabha seats in 2014 and 2019 and lost in 2024.
He posted a sunset photo with “Tata Bye-Bye” on Facebook on October 7, criticizing Yogi Adityanath’s bulldozer policy.