Akhilesh Yadav Age

Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav was born on 1 July 1973. He is 45 years old.

Akhilesh Yadav Wife

He married Dimple Rawat, who is also a politician, on 24 November 1999. The couple have two daughters and a son.

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Akhilesh Yadav Family

Yadav was born on 1 July 1973 in Saifai, Etawah District, Uttar Pradesh. He was born to Malti Devi and Mulayam Singh Yadav, later Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. Yadav is a vegetarian. He has two daughters and a son.

Since Yadav became chief minister, the family was divided into two feuding groups, one siding with him and the other with his father. Later Yadav had the support of his father’s cousin, Ram Gopal.

His father was supported by Shivpal (Mulayam Singh’s brother) and friend Amar Singh.

Akhilesh Yadav Education

Soon he was schooled at the Dholpur Military School in Dholpur, Rajasthan, then obtained his Bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Civil Environmental Engineering at Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering.

He also has a master’s degree in environmental engineering from the University of Sydney, Australia.

Akhilesh Yadav CM

He was the 20th Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and assumed office on 15th March 2012. At age 38, he was the youngest person to have held the office at the time of his election.

Soon his first significant foray into politics began in 2000, with him being elected as a Member of Lok Sabha for the Kannauj constituency.

Through his 5 years as Chief Minister of UP, he led the Samajwadi Party to bringing various infrastructure and social development schemes in the state.

Akhilesh Yadav Biography

Akhilesh is a die-hard socialist. Get him talking and he would like to talk at length about Ram Manohar Lohia.

Politics for long has meant leading youth of the party on a bicycle, his party’s political symbol, door to door.

He was 27 when he entered the Lok Sabha first, winning from Kannauj in 2000, when his father Mulayam Singh vacated the seat having won two – Mainpuri and Kannauj. Mr Yadav has been the Kannauj MP since.

In the 2009 Lok Sabha elections, Akhilesh contested two seats and won both. He kept Kannauj and gave up Firozabad.

Akhilesh Yadav Party

He took over as the SP’s UP president in June 2009. He had already been heading the party’s youth wing for some time. His first task he had said then was to review his party’s electoral setbacks to draw vital lessons and take corrective action.

Akhilesh’s magic UP potion involved attempting to strip the party of its image as a “party of goons” in the words of political rivals.

He insisted on hand-picking candidates for the UP elections unmindful of whose feet he stepped on. He also famously keeping the likes of DP Yadav away from the party.

Through his campaign he talked law and order as his party’s foremost agenda and after the SP’s win promised UP freedom from Goonda Raj. He had other challenges.

Three years ago, before the 2009 General Elections, the SP had said it was against the use of English and the use of computers. By 2012, the SP manifesto was the first to promise laptops and tablets for students who completed school-leaving.

Among the many changes that Media credited the younger Yadav with, is bringing in more young, educated professionals into his party.