Grand coronation on 15th Mar 2012.
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Speaking with reporters here on Wednesday, Akhilesh said he would be taking oath along with a small council of ministers. Sources said the number of ministers taking oath with Akhilesh could number about 18. The swearing-in ceremony is likely to be attended by top politicians, industrialists and cine stars. Party sources say Akhilesh’s crowning as UP CM was delayed by almost 10 days after the results came in precisely because SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav planned it to be a show of strength for the party. In fact, there has been talk of Mulayam using the occasion to kick-start the Third Front once again in view of the approaching Lok Sabha election in 2014. Among the personalities expected to attend the swearing-in are ADAG chief Anil Ambani, actor and SP MP Jaya Bachchan, JD (U) chief Sharad Yadav, CPM leaders Prakash and Vrinda Karat, National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah, J&K CM Omar Abdullah, former PMHD Deve Gowda, and former Andhra CM Chandrababu Naidu. Union minister of state Sultan Ahmed and West Bengal co-operatives minister HA Safvi would be representing Trinamool Congress. AICC treasurer Motilal Vora and Union parliamentary affairs minister Pawan Bansal are reportedly representing Congress chief Sonia Gandhi. |
Akhilesh to be UP chief minister
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Akhilesh’s election for the top post was followed by a thunderous clapping of the newly-elected MLAs and senior leaders. As his name was announced, Akhilesh touched the feet of his 73-year-old father Mulayam Singh Yadav.
Akhilesh’s predecessor Mayawati was a year older than he is now, when she first became CMin 1995 in a coalition government. After his election as leader of the SPLP, Akhilesh drove down to the Raj Bhavan to formally stake a claim for government formation. He was accompanied by senior party leaders Azam Khan, Shivpal Yadav and Ambika Chaudhry. Governor BL Joshi congratulated him and discussed when the swearing-in ceremony would be held.
Akhilesh was always the front-runner for the CM’s post ever since the results were announced on Tuesday. The scion of the Yadav family had crisscrossed the entire state on his Kranti rath yatra on a modified bus for about five months since September last. His yatra is said to be the single most important factor behind the party’s huge win. Akhilesh was also instrumental in the party shedding its image of being opposed to computers and English, with the promise of free laptops and tablets for students included in the party manifesto.
Over the last two days, Mulayam Singh is reported to have worked tirelessly to iron out differences within the party over the issue of the next CM. Finally, he managed to persuade the party’s old guard, which had its doubts about Akhilesh, to accept the handing over of the mantle of chief minister to his son, who at present represents Kannauj in the Lok Sabha. Akhilesh will resign the Parliament seat soon and contest from an Assembly seat in UP.
Party sources say Mulayam has instructed his younger brother, Shivpal, to vacate the Jaswant Nagar seat of Etawah district for Akhilesh. Shivpal has been asked to contest the Kannauj Lok Sabha seat in the by-election that will follow Akhilesh’s resignation from the seat, according to sources.
In Puttar Pradesh, a son rises - Tipu set to wield his sword
His favourite game is football but he has ended up playing politics. He graduated in civil engineering, but is practicing social engineering. His favourite food is South Indian, but he would now be running the affairs of a north Indian state. He may be a bundle of contradictions, but Akhilesh Yadav has crowned his career like no one ever imagined.
For his teachers and fellow students at the JC Engineering College of Mysore, he was just a shy young boy who never flaunted his political connection. For the family, he was ‘Tipu’, perhaps because of his association with Mysore. He is a fitness freak, spending at least two hours in his gym everyday. Even when he is out, he makes it a point to walk or jog five kms.
Akhilesh, who virtually scripted single-handedly the Samajwadi Party’s spectacular win in the assembly polls, is seen as its modern face who gave it an image makeover. The party led by Mulayam was always seen as a party dominated by casteist and communal concerns. Proudly sporting a red Gandhi cap and dressed perpetually in a white kurta-pyjama and black sleeveless jacket, he addressed over 500 public meetings, and managed to change the people’s impression of the SP. He played a leading role in shedding SP’s image of being anti-English and anti-computers by getting the promise of free laptops and tablets to students included in the party manifesto.
Born on July 1, 1973, Akhilesh did his early studies at the Sainik School in Dholpur (Rajasthan), and then acquired a degree in civil environment engineering from the Mysore University. Akhilesh finished masters in environmental engineering from the University of Sydney, Australia, in 1998 and was contemplating taking up water pollution projects when his father drafted him into politics.
Akhilesh was just 27 when he entered the Lok Sabha through a by-election in 2000 as MP from Kannauj, a seat that Mulayam had vacated as he had also won from Mainpuri. The junior Yadav has been Kannauj MP since then.
Denying a party ticket to mafia don DP Yadav established his writ in the eyes of the entire party including seniors.
Akhilesh seems to have struck a chord with the people at large with his modesty and courtesy, a departure from Rahul Gandhi’s conceit, cynicism and political arrogance.
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Samajwadi Party's young MP from Kannauj Akhilesh Yadav has already locked four Lok Sabha elections since 2000(he had won the Firozabad Lok Sabha seat in 2009 but had to vacate it since he had already won from Kannauj), and now after being appointed as party's UP president is spearheading the campaign to bring back Samajwadi Party to power in 2012 in UP assembly elections.
An Engineer and a self-confessed environmentalist, Akhilesh Yadav has become one of the youth icons of India. Born in Saifai in Uttar Pradesh, he possesses a delicate mix of both India and Bharat - farmer issues, problems of poor India along with social problems in urban India especially the youth often fuels him to take to the streets on foot or on a cycle which is the party's symbol.
Samajwadi Party's national president Shri Mulayam Singh Yadav's son, Akhilesh is a confirmed workaholic, an ardent time manager and a people's person, Akhilesh's work starts before dawn spilling into late hours at night which is a normal, daily occurrence. Akhilesh is often seen travelling across Uttar Pradesh regardless of elections, his passion to energize party workers, youth and work for the poor has won him many friends across the length and breath of the country. In Parliament, he has been a member of several committees from food and civil supplies to urban development, science and technology and environment and forests.
A fast thinker and a voracious reader, Akhilesh keenly tracks social and political developments whether at national and international level. Akhilesh's constituency Kannauj, the ancient capital of Emperor Harshvardhan, situated in the heart of Uttar Pradesh is like home to Akhilesh, after all he has won 3 Lok Sabha elections from here. Kannauj was also the constituency of the great socialist leader Dr Ram Manohar Lohia during the 60s, the socialist leader whom Akhilesh admires deeply. Working for the people of his constituency is the young leader's passion and he works tirelessly to improve their lives.
A natural leader who doesn't believe in sitting on the fence, he has already spent over a decade in politics having entered parliament in 2000. Akhilesh has already made a mark in galvanising the youth, whether on a campaign trail or simply at home he is forever surrounded with his youth brigade, in fact he believes in the motto: Take everyone along both young and old, success comes in togetherness.
A product of young, vibrant and brave new India, Akhilesh embraces everything that India wants to be: responsible, trustworthy and ready to take on any challenge, as India enters the new decade of the 21st century, Akhilesh's ideas are set to lead his party towards a new path.
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Election results 2012: I thank the people of UP, says Akhilesh Yadav
Akhilesh Yadav has thanked UP for voting for the Samajwadi Party across caste and community lines and giving it a majority. "UP accepted the manifesto we placed in their midst and we will implement this manifesto for the prosperity of the state," the young SP leader, who led the UP campaign from the front, promised, adding "anyone meddling with law and order will not be spared."
And much has changed in the life of Akhilesh Yadav, but not that one assertion. "Mulayam Singh Yadav will be the UP Chief Minister," said the rising son. SP MLAs, Mr Yadav said, would meet tomorrow to decide on the modalities of government formation. Akhilesh Yadav is being credited with winning his father that fourth term as Chief Minister. His party is now leading in 222 seats in UP, the best performance by any single party since 1991.
In victory, Akhilesh refuses comment on the rivals he bested. He will not talk about Rahul Gandhi. He will not talk about Mayawati either, though he confirms that the very expensive and very large stone elephants and statues of Dalit leaders, including those of her, will not be pulled down by the SP. "We may look at building a hospital in the space not used in the Lucknow memorial park," Mr Yadav said.
However, during a tour of Bundelkhand region last year, Akhilesh had vowed that Mayawati's statues would be pulled down after UP polls. "In recent times, uprising in some countries against dictators saw their statues being pulled down...In 2012, the day Samajwadi Party government comes to power, there would be no sign of the grand statues of Mayawati," he had said.
Earlier, Mr Yadav stepped out of his party's Lucknow office to be greeted by a sea of joyous supporters, song, dance and colour. As a supporter crowned him with a pagdi, other shouted, "Akhilesh has shown there is no other youth leader." Yadav Junior, who attempted a successful image makeover for the SP, is the man of the moment but chooses to underplay his role, "The entire party worked hard and won," he says, thanking the people for "believing in the SP...people across caste and community voted for the SP," he said.
Akhilesh Yadav's Samajwadi Party is a 2012 coinage. For as long as the party has existed it has been Mulayam Singh Yadav's SP. That changed with the UP elections, when Yadav Jr, 39, took charge of the party's effort to wrest the state back from his father's bete noire Mayawati. With a majority in the bag, Akhilesh Yadav can allow himself a smile and say - mission accomplished.
Akhilesh Yadav said yesterday that he believed in God, but not in religious rituals and so was not sending up fervent prayers for victory. He said he had faith in the party's gritty electoral fight to remove the BSP from power; personally that translated into a 10,000-km yatra, 800 rallies in UP over the last six months and a systematic attempt at an image makeover for his Samajwadi Party, all of which have paid off.
Yesterday, Mulayam Singh Yadav refused to talk post-poll alliances because he said he was convinced his party would manage the 202 seats needed for a simple majority in the 403-seat UP Assembly. He has not spoken today; Mr Yadav has said he will not talk at all till results are out. For now, the dancing crowds of SP supporters at the SP office in Lucknow are eloquent.
As Akhilesh wrote the UP script, he had his task cut out. The party has for long had a lawless image, attacked as a "party of goons" by opponents and Akhilesh Yadav set about attempting to change that. He insisted on hand-picking candidates unmindful of whose feet he stepped on, famously keeping the likes of DP Yadav away. Through his campaign he talked law and order as his party's foremost agenda.
He had other challenges. Three years ago, before the 2009 General Elections, the SP had said it was against the use of English and the use of computers. By 2012, the SP manifesto was the first to promise laptops and tablets for students who completed school-leaving. The manifesto is forward looking with an accent of education. Among the many changes the younger Yadav is credited with, is bringing in more young, educated professionals into his party.
Mr Yadav has been high on visibility in these elections. The red Gandhi cap, white kurta pyjama and black sleeveless jacket have been ubiquitous as Akhilesh dashed to every corner of the state.
Akhilesh Yadav wears his party's socialist roots on his sleeve. The son-of-the-soil image of the Samajwadi Party's UP president has been cultivated with care and he does not let it flag at this, his moment in the sun.
He cut his teeth in politics early. He schooled at the Sainik School in Dhaulpur, Rajasthan, and then acquired a degree in civil environment engineering from the Mysore University. He finished a Masters in environmental engineering from the University of Sydney, Australia, in 1998 and was contemplating taking up water pollution projects when his father drafted him into politics.
Electioneering meant leading youth of the party on a bicycle, his party's political symbol, on the dust-tracks of UP; he was 27 when he entered the Lok Sabha first, winning from Kannauj in 2000, when his father Mulayam Singh vacated the seat having won two - Mainpuri and Kannauj. Mr Yadav has been the Kannauj MP since.
In the 2009 Lok Sabha elections Akhilesh too contested two seats and won both. He kept Kannauj and gave up Ferozabad. Six months later, when wife Dimple contested by-elections from Ferozabad, she was soundly defeated by the Congress' Raj Babbar, a former Samajwadi Party man. The SP had thought this was a sitter; the Congress made it a prestige battle, with Rahul Gandhi leading a pantheon of leaders to campaign for Mr Babbar.
A vital lesson was learnt - there are no free lunches.
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