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The candidature of Babbar, who lost the last Lok Sabha election from Fatehpur Sikri, was announced by AICC in-charge Oscar Fernandes on Saturday.
The seat has been vacated by Akhilesh Yadav who won from two constituencies, Kannauj and Firozabad, in the last Lok Sabha polls. He preferred to retain Kannauj.
Babbar, formerly in the SP, won from Agra parliamentary constituency in the 2004 polls.
He joined the Congress after his relationship with top SP leadership strained and then contested from Fatehpuri Sikri in the 2009 polls on a Congress ticket, but lost by a small margin.
Firozabad is the only constituency in UP for which by-elections are to be held.
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