Dimple’s dubious electoral marvel

Is Dimple Yadav’s historic feat a blot on Indian democracy? She has won the Kannauj Lok Sabha seat in a ‘byelection’ without the casting of a single vote. At first sight, going by the media portrayal of this victory scored by the wife of UP Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, himself the son of Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav, the question seems completely misplaced.

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