Akhilesh Yadav, the 38-year-old son of party chief Mulayam Singh, has been chosen to become the youngest Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh by the Samajwadi Party on Saturday.
He will be sworn-n as CM on March 15.
Akhilesh has never projected himself as being a Chief Ministerial candidate and in all his interviews after the election victory has been saying that his father will be the next Chief Minister.
However, Mulayam Singh has been holding parleys over the last few days with dissenting members of the Samajwadi Party like his brother Shivpal and minority community leader Azam Khan to choose Akhilesh as the Chief Minister.
There were reports of celebrations by Samajwadi Party workers across the state as the news of Akhilesh being chosen as the CM got public. Here is his profile.
Akhilesh Yadav Profile |
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| Name | Akhilesh Yadav |
| Born | July 1, 1973 |
| Born / Home Town | Saifai |
| Profession | Politician |
| Father | Mulayam Singh Yadav |
| Spouse | Dimple Yadav |
Akhilesh Yadav Biography |
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| Akhilesh Yadav is the young politician and son of the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Mulayam Singh Yadav. He was born on 1st July 1973 in Saifai in Etawah district of Uttar Pradesh. His parents are Mulayam Singh Yadav and Malti Devi.
After completing his school life at Military School at Dholpur in Rajasthan, he continued his higher education in engineering at Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering of the University of Mysore. Later he went to Australia for studying the Masters degree in environmental engineering at the University of Sydney. He married Dimple in November 1999 and has three children named Aditi and twins Arjun and Tina. He is also an agriculturist, engineer, politician and social worker, that is how he lists his profession in the official bio data of Lok Sabha. He has been the member of Lok Sabha for three terms from 2000. When he won for the first time in 2000 from the Kannauj constituency in the by elections, he was only 27. His father won in two seats at that time, from Mainpuri and Kannauj and had to vacate one in which Akhilesh contested. In 2009 Lok Sabha elections, he contested in two constituencies, Kannauj and Firozabad. He retained Kannauj and gave up Firozabad. He was a football player when he studied at Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering. Once the ball hit straight on his nose and he suffered nose fracture. The mark on his nose is seen even today and the nose appears slightly bent. He loves riding bicycle and is seen on Twitter and Facebook. During the campaign of the 2012 Lok Sabha elections, he had traveled over 10,000 kilometers and had held 800 rallies in six months’ time. “Akhilesh Yadav was the poster boy for the Samajwadi Party in this campaign and he was the face that helped people to put behind them the unpleasant memories they had of the previous SP rule,” said Siddharth Varadarajan, editor of the Hindu newspaper. |
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