After Samajwadi Party announced that Akhilesh Yadav will contest Lok Sabha polls from Kannauj seat, BJP MP from Kannauj, Subrat Pathak, said that now the match would be like India versus Pakistan. Reacting to SP earlier naming Lalu Prasad Yadav's son-in-law Tej Pratap Yadav from Kannauj, Pathak said with Tej Pratap it would have been India versus Nepal's cricket match.