Abhishek Bachchan may contest Lok Sabha elections from Allahabad, Big B won the seat in 1984

In 1984, Amitabh Bachchan contested the Lok Sabha elections as a Congress candidate from Allahabad and won by a huge margin. It is being speculated that Samajwadi Party will field Abhishek Bachchan from this seat in the Lok Sabha elections. However, the party has not made any official announcement in this regard.

Lucknow: Abhishek Bachchan is likely to make an entry into politics following the footsteps of his star parents Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bachchan. Speculation is rife that he will join the Samajwadi Party and contest the Lok Sabha elections from Allahabad seat.

In 1984, Amitabh Bachchan had contested from this seat with a Congress ticket at the behest of the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. Big B had defeated the then Lok Dal leader Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna by a whooping margin of 1,09,000 votes. Presently, Abhishek's mother Jaya Bachchan is a Rajya Sabha MP from the Samajwadi Party. In such a situation, the Samajwadi Party claims that Abhishek Bachchan can possibly contest the Lok Sabha elections from Allahabad seat.

Mayank Joshi, son of BJP MP Rita Bahuguna Joshi, has already joined the Samajwadi Party. So, it is unlikely that Rita Bahuguna Joshi will contest from Allahabad as a BJP candidate.

Allahabad seat has been the centre of politics for years. In the last Lok Sabha elections, BJP's Rita Bahuguna Joshi had won a landslide victory from here. Now with her son Mayank joining the Samajwadi Party, questions are being raised on whether Rita Bahuguna Joshi will get a BJP ticket from Prayagraj.

It may be recalled that when Big B contested from Allahabad, about one lakh people had registered and came to meet him. Amitabh Bachchan has been associated with Allahabad in his early life. He used to call himself 'Chhora Ganga Kinare Wala'. Thus, it is believed that the Samajwadi Party wants to capitalise on Amitabh Bachchan's craze in Allahabad by announcing his son from this seat.