Dimple Yadav

Dimple Yadav (born 15 January 1978) is an Indian politician. A member of the Samajwadi Party, Yadav was, for two terms, the Member of the Indian Parliament representing Kannauj. Her husband is the Samajwadi Party President and former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Akhilesh Yadav.[1] She is the daughter in law of Mulayam Singh Yadav, former Defence Minister of India & founder-patron of Samajwadi Party.

Dimple Yadav
Dimple Yadav at MLC election campaign
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
In office
8 August 2012 – 18 June 2019
Preceded byAkhilesh Yadav
Succeeded bySubrat Pathak
ConstituencyKannauj
Personal details
Born (1978-01-15) 15 January 1978
Pune, Maharashtra, India
Political partySamajwadi Party
Spouse(s)Akhilesh Yadav
RelationsMulayam Singh Yadav (father-in-law)
Children3
ResidenceSaifai village, Etawah, Uttar Pradesh
Alma materLucknow University
ProfessionPolitician
Websitewww.samajwadiparty.in

Early life and education

Dimple Yadav was born in 1978 at Pune, Maharashtra.[2] She is the second of three daughters of retired Indian Army Col R. C. S. Rawat and Champa Rawat.[3] Her family is originally from Uttarakhand.[4] She was educated in Pune, Bathinda and Andaman and Nicobar island and Army Public School, Nehru road, Lucknow.[5] She graduated in commerce from Lucknow University.[6]

Dimple met Akhilesh Yadav when she was a student. Originally Akhilesh's family was opposed to their marriage, but they agreed after Akhilesh's grandmother Murtidevi approved. The pair got married[7][2] when she was aged 21. Guests at her wedding included movie stars, Amitabh Bachchan and Rajesh Khanna.[8] The couple have two daughters and a son.[9]

Political career

Yadav unsuccessfully contested the by-election for the Lok Sabha constituency of Firozabad in 2009 against actor turned politician Raj Babbar.[10] 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.[11][12] [13][14] 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.[6] 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.[6]

Dimple contested as a joint candidate of the Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, but lost to BJP's Subrat Pathak with a margin of more than 10,000 votes.[15]

Post held
SLFromToPositions
1.20122014Elected to 15th Lok Sabha (1st term) from Kannauj
2.20142019Re - Elected to 16th Lok Sabha (2nd term) from

Kannauj

References
  1. "Politically Famous Better Halves: Sonia Gandhi, Poonam Sinha & Dimple Yadav". The Economic Times. 14 May 2019. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
  2. "The love-story of Akhilesh and Dimple Yadav: A drama made for the movies". Latest Indian news, Top Breaking headlines, Today Headlines, Top Stories at Free Press Journal. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
  3. "Facts you didn't know about UP CM Akhilesh Yadav's wife Dimple Yadav". dailybhaskar. 12 August 2013. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
  4. "Mulayam crosses caste barriers". www.sunday-guardian.com. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
  5. "Facts you didn't know about UP CM Akhilesh Yadav's wife Dimple Yadav". Daily Bhaskar. 12 August 2013. Retrieved 31 May 2014.
  6. "Lok Sabha 2014 Elections: Dimple Yadav, a horse-rider gallops into politics". DNA News. 29 March 2014. Retrieved 31 May 2014.
  7. "4 साल तक चली थी अखिलेश-डिंपल की डेटिंग, ऐसी फिल्मी है CM की लव स्टोरी". Dainik Bhaskar. 1 July 2016. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
  8. Bhat, Vasudha (20 April 2014). "Jab they met: Akhilesh and Dimple Yadav". India TV News. Retrieved 31 May 2014.
  9. Bhat, Vasudha (20 April 2014). "Jab they met: Akhilesh and Dimple Yadav". India TV News. Retrieved 31 May 2014.
  10. Roy, Rustam (6 November 2009). "I am not fighting for family but for party's honour: Mulayam's bahu Dimple Yadav". Times of India. Retrieved 7 March 2010.
  11. "'Dhritrashtra Syndrome' dominates phase III in UP". Ashish Tripathi. The Times of India. 20 April 2014. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
  12. Pradhan, Sharat (12 November 2009). "Analysis: Why Dimple Yadav came a cropper in UP bypoll". Rediff. Retrieved 7 March 2010.
  13. SARIN, RITU; AMITAV RANJAN (14 December 2008). "Law Minister at the wheel in CBI's U-turn on Mulayam case". Indian Express. Retrieved 7 March 2010.
  14. "Probe UP CM's money: SC to CBI". CNN-IBN. 1 March 2007. Retrieved 7 March 2010.
  15. "Elections 2019: Dimple Yadav loses Samajwadi Party bastion Kannauj to BJP's Subrat Pathak". Scroll.in. Scroll. Archived from the original on 27 May 2019. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
Preceded by
Akhilesh Yadav		 Member of parliament, Lok Sabha (Kannauj)
2012 – present		 Succeeded by
incumbent
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