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I urge uncle Shivpal Singh Yadav to bestow his blessing on his second nephew and promote a youngster in the new era of politics.”Shivpal Yadav is set to file nomination on Saturday. We expect an announcement soon.”Local political analyst said that there are at least five senior BJP leaders in the race. Agra: Taking a dig at BJP, the SP-BSP-RLD alliance candidate Akshay Yadav claimed that Firozabad is Samajwadi Party’s (SP) stronghold and “the saffron party doesn’t stand a chance”. The BJP is yet to field anyone from Firozabad parliamentary constituency.On Friday, after filing nomination papers in presence of SP leader Vijay Arya and BSP ex-MLA Rakesh Babu, the incumbent MLA interacted with mediapersons. According to the election commission, there were 16,36,738 voters in the 2014 polls, and Akshay won the seat with 5,34,583 votes.Speaking to TOI, Firozabad BJP unit president, Manvendra Singh Lodhi, said, “The party’s parliamentary committee is finalising the candidate for Firozabad..