Personal Life & Political Career
Dimple Yadav (born January 15, 1978) is a politician Samajwadi party member of the Indian Parliament in Kannauj. Her husband is the leader of the Samajwadi party and the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, Akhilesh Yadav.
Yadav unsuccessfully contested the by-election in Lok Sabha district of Firozabad in 2009 against politician Raj Babbar.
Early life and education
Dimple Yadav was born in 1978 in Pune, Maharashtra. Rawat and Champa Rawat is the second of three daughters of the retired soldier of the Indian Army. His family is from Uttarakhand. Public School, Nehru Road, Lucknow. His parents now live in Kashipur, Uttarakhand. She holds a degree in commerce from Lucknow University.
Dimple met Akhilesh Yadav when she was a student. Originally, the children's family was opposed to their marriage, but they agreed after Akhilesh's grandmother, Murtidevi. The couple married at the age of 21. Guests at his wedding include movie stars Amitabh Bachchan and Rajesh Khanna. The couple with two girls and a son. In 2012, Akhilesh was the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh until March 19, 2017.
Political career
Yadav unsuccessfully contested the by-election for the 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 Uttar Pradesh since the independence of India to be elected unopposed. This situation arose when 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 the 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.
