Yogendra Yadav “ from 'Psephologist' to 'aspiring Haryana CM'

New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has declared Yogendra Yadav to be its CM candidate in upcoming Haryana assembly elections.Yogendra with wife MadhulikaTherefore, It's time to have a look at who Yogendra Yadav is?Born on September 5, 1963 in Haryana, Yogendra Yadav is India's one of the leading social scientists. He is also one of the well known academicians of India and is a senior fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi since 2004.Yadav is the founder-convenor (1995- 2002) of the Lokniti network and the founder-director (1997-2003) of Lokniti, a research programme on comparative democracy of the CSDS.He has been appearing as a socio-economic and political commentator on Indian Television for quite a long time. He has authored a number of books including Electoral Politics in Indian States. He was also a member of University Grants Commission (UGC). He was recently sacked from that position after he joined active politics as a member of Aam aadmi Party (AAP).Yogendra Yadav is, in one sense, the political ideologue of Kejriwal led AAP. When Kejriwal decided to form a political party, many people were skeptical about the future of the new political outfit given the fact that most of those who were part of this political party were not career politicians and lacked the experience of running a political party.Yogendra came forward to the rescue of AAP under these circumstances. He took up the challenge of providing the moral and ethical guidance to the newly fledged political party. Very soon, Yogendra emerged as one of the most trusted lieutenants of Arvind Kejriwal. He was among the handful of people who drafted the party's electoral strategy including the manifesto. Yogendra Yadav played a crucial role in AAP's spectacular success in recently concluded Delhi assembly elections. Impressed with his political acumen, the Aam aadmi Party (AAP) has declared him as the CM candidate in upcoming Haryana ssembly elections. Yogendra has already started working for getting a foothold for AAP in Haryana's political terrain. Arvind kejriwal rates him very highly but it remains to be seen whether Yogendra will do a Kejriwal in upcoming Haryana assembly elections.