Akhilesh Yadav is the national president of the Samajwadi Party. He served as the 20th Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh from 2012 to 2017. Born on July 1, 1973, Yadav became the youngest CM to assume office at the age of 38. He was elected the Member of Parliament from Azamgarh in the 17th Lok Sabha. For the upcoming assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, he will be contesting from his stronghold Karhal seat in Mainpuri district and won. This is the first time Akhilesh will contest an assembly election. SP has always won a majority from Karhal since 1993, except once in 2002. Akhilesh Yadav is an important face for the upcoming UP assembly elections in 2022. The Samajwadi Party has formed an alliance with the Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party for the polls. The parties have given the slogan ‘Khadeda Howe’, a call to “drive out” the BJP from the state. Akhilesh is the son of veteran politician Mulayam Singh Yadav, who served as the Chief Minister of UP for three non-consecutive terms. Akhilesh Yadav began his political career in the year 2000 when he got elected to the 13th Lok Sabha from Kannauj in a by-election. During his tenure as the CM of Uttar Pradesh, the Agra-Lucknow Expressway was completed and inaugurated. When Akhilesh became CM, the party was divided into two groups, one of which supported him, and the other sided with his uncle Shivpal Yadav. Recently, Akhilesh Yadav received backlash from the opposition after he compared Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Mahatma Gandhi, and Jawaharlal Nehru to the likes of Mohammad Ali Jinnah. He said that they all studied in the same institute, and fought for India's freedom.
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Shivpal Yadav had contested the Assembly elections from Jaswantnagar seat of Etawah on the symbol of the Samajwadi Party headed by his nephew Akhilesh Yadav.
The BJP had retained power for a second successive term in Uttar Pradesh by winning 255 of the 403 assembly seats, while the SP bagged 111 seats and emerged as a strong opposition.
The Samajwadi Party chief welcomed the newly-elected Speaker Satish Mahana.
The two leaders met in the UP legislative assembly ahead of the oath taking of the newly-elected members of the 18th Uttar Pradesh Assembly.
With this, the SP president is all set to become the leader of opposition in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly.
SP founder Mulayam Singh Yadav’s younger brother had fought polls from his family bastion Jaswantnagar and won after a truce with his Akhilesh Yadav.
Moments after Yogi Adityanath took oath, Akhilesh Yadav tweeted a congratulatory message for the new CM but laced it with some sarcasm.
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav won the Assembly election from the Karhal Assembly seat in Mainpuri district in the just concluded polls in Uttar Pradesh.
Sources said that Jayant Chaudhary will soon meet Akhilesh Yadav and a formal announcement will be made about the former's Rajya Sabha candidature.
Khan had met SP chief Akhilesh Yadav and presented a book written by him on the Gorakhpur hospital tragedy.
His comment came in response to a question on the recently released film 'The Kashmir Files'.
"The SP-alliance got 51.5 percent of the postal ballot votes, which means that the SP registered victory on 304 seats", Yadav stated.
Akhilesh Yadav is a Lok Sabha MP from Azamgarh. He won the Assembly election from Karhal in the just concluded polls.
According to the results, many alleged dons-turned-politicians failed to make it to the Uttar Pradesh Assembly.
Reiterating her call for an opposition alliance to defeat the BJP, the West Bengal CM said there is no use of “sitting" idle and waiting for Congress.
The BJP's win in Uttar Pradesh is a record as no party has won consecutive elections in the country's most populous state in nearly four decades.
Despite giving a tough fight to BJP and improving its seat share in the Vidhan Sabha elections this year, SP failed to cross the halfway mark of 202 seats in Uttar Pradesh.
According to sources,one of the main reasons for the under performance of the alliance in an area that was the focal point of the famers' agitation against the ruling BJP, was faulty candidate selection and swapping of candidates.
Assembly election in Sultanpur was held in the fifth phase on February 27. According to previous election results, BJP may have an edge over SP as the saffron party has won this seat 4 times while Samajwadi Party won it 3 times.
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