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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The third phase of UP polls will be conducted on Sunday and all parties are eyeing for the seat of Karhal, where Akhilesh Yadav will be competing against BJP's SP Singh Baghel. However, Yogi Adityanath seems to have devised a plan to counter Akhilesh. Watch this report.
24 hours before the third phase of UP Polls, various BJP leaders are alleging Samajwadi Party's connection with terrorist sentenced to death in the Ahmedabad Blasts case. Will this be a major for Akhilesh in the ongoing polls? Watch this episode of Muqabla.
All eyes are set on the Karhal seat of Mainpuri for the upcoming phase of UP polls. While Akhilesh seems confident on his win, will the alleged Samajwadi connection of Ahmedabad blast be a big trouble for Akhilesh?
UP will soon be witnessing the third phase of polls. Watch as Jyoti Mishra, your 'Reporter Bike Wali', interacts with Shivpal Yadav, uncle of Akhilesh Yadav on his opinion on the ongoing elections.
Addressing an election rally in Kannuj, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav lost his cool over policemen who were deployed to control the crowd at the venue. The BJP has hit back at Akhilesh over the incident.
Modi, Yogi and Shah - all tall leaders in BJP have been campaigning and giving their speeches ahead of the second phase of UP polls. However, this seems to pose a major challenge for the SP-RLD alliance. Will the second phase polls be a major challenge to Akhilesh and Jayant?
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday targeted the Samajwadi Party, saying five years ago muscle men and rioters used to be the law unto themselves in Uttar Pradesh. Addressing his first virtual poll rally after the announcement of dates for the assembly elections in the state, Modi said during the previous government when Western Uttar Pradesh was burning due to riots, those in power were celebrating.
Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav, on Monday, filed nomination from Karhal Seat of Mainpur. He seemed confident in his tone and said that he would definitely win from the seat.
Akhilesh Yadav says, ‘I wear a red cap and also carry a red cloth in my pocket for farmers’ . Videos of protesters trying to prevent candidates from entering villages of western UP.Watch Aaj Ki Baat with Rajat Sharma.
The duo of Akhilesh Yadav and Jayant Chaudhary did a press conference today in Muzaffarnagar and this showed a great opportunity for the SP leader in terms of gaining Jat votes. Will Jayant Chaudhary truly prove to be a gamechanger for Akhilesh Yadav. Watch this episode of Kurukshetra with Meenakshi Joshi.
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav is facing a barrage of criticism from the BJP leaders for his statement that Pakistan is a "political enemy" which is targeted by the BJP for "vote politics".
Union Home Minister Amit Shah has said that Akhilesh Yadav has no right to raise questions over law and order in Uttar Pradesh. The BJP has claimed that Akhilesh's Samajwadi Party has fielded 'criminals' on several seats. Will votes be cast on 'Ramrajya' vs 'Gundaraj' in this UP Assembly elections? Watch Kurukshetra with Meenakshi Joshi
Today videos emerge of Jat voters being threatened in western UP if they refused to vote for Muslim candidate. One candidate in Meerut openly threatens, ‘we will teach people a lesson if our govt comes to power. Watch Aaj Ki Baat with Rajat Sharma to know who threatened voters in western UP and why?
On Monday, the Samajwadi Party released list of 159 candidates for the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections. Now after giving tickets to more than a dozen tainted leaders, the SP is facing a flak from ruling BJP. Will this impact Akhilesh's party performance in the upcoming polls?
The BJP has alleged that Akhilesh Yadav's Samajwadi Party has given poll tickets to tainted candidates for the upcoming UP assembly elections. UP deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya went on to call SP's list of candidates as 'list of criminals'.
Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav has once again raised the political temperature in the poll-bound Uttar Pradesh after his 'China is India's real enemy and not Pakistan' statement. Watch Muqabla to know how this statement is gonna effect UP Election.
Who will be the next CM of UP - Yogi or Akhilesh? Know the answers on India TV as we bring you the latest opinion poll of UP Election 2022.
Akhilesh Yadav has offered to relaunch the Samajwadi Pension scheme for UP Election 2022. Yogi Adityanath slammed him for the same and said that it was stopped under Mulayam Singh Yadav in the first place.
Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath today held a door-to-door campaign in Ghaziabad. Ahead of assembly elections in the state, Adityanath interacted with the people of Mohan Nagar in Ghaziabad. He slammed the Samajwadi Party and questioned its claim ahead of polls, where it promised 300 units of free electricity to people. "Did you get electricity during the Samajwadi govt? Today they are saying they will give 300 units free but if electricity will not come, then what they will give for free? We've done what we said and have done development works in the state".
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