Akhilesh Yadav
Akhilesh Yadav | |
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Yadav in 2023 | |
| Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha | |
| Assumed office 4 June 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Subrat Pathak |
| Constituency | Kannauj, Uttar Pradesh |
| In office 30 May 2019 – 22 March 2022 | |
| Preceded by | Mulayam Singh Yadav |
| Succeeded by | Dinesh Lal Yadav |
| Constituency | Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh |
| In office 25 February 2000 – 2 May 2012 | |
| Preceded by | Mulayam Singh Yadav |
| Succeeded by | Dimple Yadav |
| Constituency | Kannauj, Uttar Pradesh |
| Leader of Samajwadi Party in Lok Sabha | |
| Assumed office 9 June 2024 | |
| Deputy | Babu Singh Kushwaha |
| Preceded by | S. T. Hasan |
| 2nd President of the Samajwadi Party | |
| Assumed office 1 January 2017 | |
| Guidance Leader | Mulayam Singh Yadav (till October 2022) |
| Preceded by | Mulayam Singh Yadav |
| 32nd Leader of the Opposition in Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
| In office 26 March 2022 – 11 June 2024 | |
| Chief Minister | Yogi Adityanath |
| Preceded by | Ram Govind Chaudhary |
| Succeeded by | Mata Prasad Pandey |
| Member of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
| In office 10 March 2022 – 11 June 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Sobaran Singh Yadav |
| Succeeded by | Tej Pratap Singh Yadav |
| Constituency | Karhal |
| 20th Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh | |
| In office 15 March 2012 – 19 March 2017 | |
| Governor | Aziz Qureshi Ram Naik |
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| Preceded by | Kumari Mayawati |
| Succeeded by | Yogi Adityanath |
| Member of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council | |
| In office 6 May 2012 – 5 May 2018 | |
| Preceded by | Kashinath Yadav |
| Succeeded by | Vijay Bahadur Pathak |
| Constituency | Elected by the MLAs |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1 July 1973 Saifai, Uttar Pradesh, India |
| Party | Samajwadi Party |
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| Relations | Shivpal Singh Yadav (uncle) |
| Children | 3 |
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| Alma mater | University of Mysore (B.E.) University of Sydney (M.E.) |
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Akhilesh Yadav (ⓘ; born 1 July 1973) is an Indian politician, engineer, agriculturalist and social worker. He is the national president of the Samajwadi Party who served as the 20th Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh from 2012 to 2017. Having assumed the chief minister's office at the age of 38, he is the youngest person to have held the office till date. He is the incumbent Member of Parliament for Kannauj in the 18th Lok Sabha, where he is the parliamentary party leader of Samajwadi Party. Earlier, he was elected as the Member of the Legislative Assembly for Karhal in the 18th Vidhan Sabha, before resigning and has also been the Leader of Opposition in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly from March 2022 to June 2024.
His first significant success in politics was being elected as the Member of the 13th Lok Sabha in the year 2000 (by-poll) for the Kannauj constituency. He is the son of Mulayam Singh Yadav, a veteran Indian politician and the founder of Samajwadi Party who served as Minister of Defence, Government of India and served three terms as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh.