Akhilesh Yadav is the incumbent Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and son of Samajwadi Chief, Mulayam Singh Yadav.
He was appointed as the CM in 2012, by then he was the youngest person to have assumed the office of CM in India.
He studied at Dholpur Military School in Dholpur, Rajasthan and subsequently was awarded a degree in Environmental Engineering while studying in Mysore.
Later Akhilesh went to Australia to study for a master's degree in the same subject. He is married to Dimple Yadav.
He was credited for assisting the party's rise from having 97 seats in the 2007 Vidhan Sabha to a total of 224.
Akhilesh Yadav dresses up more like his father, but his charming, innocent looks manage to capture hearts.