MR & MR'S AKHILESH YADAV & DIMPLE YADAV
Akhilesh Yadav (born 1 July 1973) is an Indian politician who has been Chief Ministerof Uttar Pradesh since 2012. A member of the Samajwadi Party, he was appointed as Chief
Minister in March 2012, at which time he was the youngest person to have
assumed that office.
Early
life and education
Akhilesh Yadav was born to Mulayam Singh Yadav
and Malti Devi on 1 July 1973 in Saifai village, Etawah district, Uttar Pradesh. He studied at Dholpur MilitarySchool in Dholpur, Rajasthan and subsequently was awarded a degree
in environmental
engineering while studying in Mysore. He went to Australia to study for a
master's degree in the same subject. Akhilesh gives credit to Janeshwar Mishra who initiated him to join
politics.
Political
career
Akhilesh Yadav was elected to the Lok Sabha from Kannauj
in a by-election of 2000 and retained his seat in the 2004
and 2009
general elections.
He was credited for assisting the
party's rise from having 97 seats in the 2007 Vidhan Sabha
to a total of 224 and was subsequently elected the 20th Chief Minister of Uttar
Pradesh by the party's MLAs.
He was at that time the youngest person to have held that office, being 38
years old. There have been suggestions that his government is in fact driven by
his father behind the scenes. In July 2012, Akhilesh Yadav's father Mulayam
Singh, who is president of the Samajwadi Party, addressed government ministers
and criticised the progress made during their first four months in office.
Yadav and his government faced
criticism from other political parties over a series of controversies including
Durga Shakti Nagpal case
and the 2013 Muzaffarnagar
riots.
The Samajwadi Party won five seats
in the 2014 general
election.
Dimple Yadav is an Indian politician. She is a member of the 16th Lok Sabha from Kannauj, India
as a member of the Samajwadi Party
political party.
Joining the non-BJP states in their clamour
against the changed devolution pattern imposed by the Centre, UP chief minister
Akhilesh Yadav said on Saturday the Centre should continue to support social
sector schemes instead of passing on the burden on state governments.
During a meeting of the sub-group on rationalization of centrally-sponsored schemes at Niti Ayog in New Delhi on Saturday, Akhilesh said the Centre should consult states while fixing the Centre-state fund-sharing pattern.
Chief ministers of 10 states, including Rajasthan, Jharkhand and Kerala participated in the meeting that was chaired by MP chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. "I have said before that in order to achieve cooperative federalism, the Centre must work together with states to formulate policies. By restructuring the funding patterns without consulting state governments, however, the Centre has increased financial burden on states," Akhilesh said at the meeting.
The UP CM said the distribution of funds to states on the basis of their forest cover was unfair. "As a result of this parameter, despite the devolution of funds being increased from 32% to 42%, UP stands to lose more than Rs 9000 crore," Akhilesh said.
He demanded that the Centre revise the devolution pattern to re-include social sectors schemes into the 'core of core schemes'. "It is my appeal that Central assistance to core sector schemes pertaining to agriculture, health and education, among others, should not be reduced. This is the only way cooperative federalism can be achieved," he said.
He said central aid should not be slashed for key social sector schemes. In this context, he made a special reference to the National Agriculture Development Scheme, Swacchh Bharat Mission, National Health Mission, Accelerated Irrigation Benefits Programme, Indira Awas Yojana, Mid-Day Meal Scheme, Sarv Shiksha Abhiyan, ICDS and PM Gram Sadak Yojana.
Punching holes in the Centre's theory that the existing formula of cooperative federalism will necessarily benefit states, Akhilesh emphasized that a more collaborative system must be devised while planning schemes. He said states, as implementing agencies, must be given the power to approve detailed project reports of schemes, wherever they are necessary.
During a meeting of the sub-group on rationalization of centrally-sponsored schemes at Niti Ayog in New Delhi on Saturday, Akhilesh said the Centre should consult states while fixing the Centre-state fund-sharing pattern.
Chief ministers of 10 states, including Rajasthan, Jharkhand and Kerala participated in the meeting that was chaired by MP chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. "I have said before that in order to achieve cooperative federalism, the Centre must work together with states to formulate policies. By restructuring the funding patterns without consulting state governments, however, the Centre has increased financial burden on states," Akhilesh said at the meeting.
The UP CM said the distribution of funds to states on the basis of their forest cover was unfair. "As a result of this parameter, despite the devolution of funds being increased from 32% to 42%, UP stands to lose more than Rs 9000 crore," Akhilesh said.
He demanded that the Centre revise the devolution pattern to re-include social sectors schemes into the 'core of core schemes'. "It is my appeal that Central assistance to core sector schemes pertaining to agriculture, health and education, among others, should not be reduced. This is the only way cooperative federalism can be achieved," he said.
He said central aid should not be slashed for key social sector schemes. In this context, he made a special reference to the National Agriculture Development Scheme, Swacchh Bharat Mission, National Health Mission, Accelerated Irrigation Benefits Programme, Indira Awas Yojana, Mid-Day Meal Scheme, Sarv Shiksha Abhiyan, ICDS and PM Gram Sadak Yojana.
Punching holes in the Centre's theory that the existing formula of cooperative federalism will necessarily benefit states, Akhilesh emphasized that a more collaborative system must be devised while planning schemes. He said states, as implementing agencies, must be given the power to approve detailed project reports of schemes, wherever they are necessary.
Early
life and education
Dimple was born in 1978 to the
retired Indian Army Col SC Rawat at Almora as the second of three daughters. Her
family is originally from Uttarakhand. She was
educated in Pune, Bhatinda and Andaman and
Nicobar island. Her parents now live in Kashipur, Uttarakhand.
She graduated in commerce from Lucknow University[3] at age 21 and is married to Akhilesh Yadav, the incumbent (2014) Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. One of her hobbies is horse
riding. She's the sixth member from Mulayam Singh Yadav's
family who has taken a plunge in politics. Some of guests at her wedding
included Amitabh Bachchan
and Rajesh Khanna. She has three children including
two girls Aditi and Tina and a son, Arjun.
Political
career
Dimple Yadav unsuccessfully
contested the by-election for Lok Sabha constituency of
Firozabad
in 2009 against actor turned politician Raj Babbar. The by-election was caused by her
husband winning a seat in the May 2009 general
elections both in this constituency as well as in Kannauj
and taking up his seat from there. Prior to her entry into politics, she had
been involved in a disproportionate wealth case along with her family members. She
was elected unopposed from the Kannauj constituency to the Lok Sabha in 2012,
after her husband caused another by-election by vacating the seat to enter the Uttar
Pradesh legislative council. Dimple became the 44th person in the
country and only the fourth in UP since Independence to be elected unopposed.
The election went unopposed after two candidates, Dashrath Singh Shankwar (Samyukt Samajwadi Dal)
and Sanju Katiyar (Independent) withdrew their nominations. Bharatiya Janata Party
and Indian National
Congress had not nominated any candidates for the by-election;
though BJP clarified later that their candidate missed his train so he failed
to reach in time to file his nomination. This made her the first woman from
Uttar Pradesh to elected unopposed in a Lok Sabha by-election, and second
person after Purshottam Das Tandon's
election from Allahabad West in 1952. She
became the only woman MP whose husband was Chief Minister, and also one whose
father-in-law was also a member of the same House (Lok Sabha).
Controversies
Mrs. Yadav was embroiled in
controversy when she commented defensively against the growing degree of rapes
in her state(Uttar Pradesh).
Celebrity
MP
Mrs. Yadav is now termed as
celebrity MP in Uttar Pradesh. Many people and organizations are always keen to
invite her in their functions.
