Saturday, 27 June 2015

AKHILESH & DIMPLE YADAV : EMERGING POLITICIANS IN INDIA




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. 




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.

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