Dimple Yadav

Indian politician (born 1978)

Dimple Yadav
Yadav in 2019

Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
Incumbent
Assumed office 8 December 2022
Preceded by	Mulayam Singh Yadav
Constituency	Mainpuri, Uttar Pradesh
In office 8 August 2012 – 23 May 2019
Preceded by	Akhilesh Yadav
Succeeded by	Subrat Pathak
Constituency	Kannauj, Uttar Pradesh

Personal details
Born	Dimple Rawat (1978-01-15) 15 January 1978 (age 46) Pune, Maharashtra, India^[1]
Political party	Samajwadi Party
Spouse	Akhilesh Yadav (m. Mulayam Singh Yadav (father-in-law) Dharmendra Yadav (brother-in-law)
Children	3
Residence(s)	Saifai village, Etawah, Uttar Pradesh^[1]
Alma mater	Lucknow University
Profession	Politician

Dimple Yadav (born 15 January 1978) is an Indian politician and the incumbent member of parliament from Mainpuri of Uttar Pradesh since December 2022. She has earlier served as member of the Lok Sabha for two terms from Kannauj. She is married to Samajwadi Party president and former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, Akhilesh Yadav.^[2]

Yadav is the daughter-in-law of Mulayam Singh Yadav, former Defence Minister of India, former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and founder-patron of the Samajwadi Party.

Early life and education

Dimple Yadav was born on 15 January 1978 at Pune, Maharashtra.^[1]^[3] She is the second of three daughters of retired Indian Army Col. Ram Chandra Singh Rawat and Champa Rawat.^[4] Her family is originally from Uttarakhand.^[5] She was educated in Pune, Bathinda and Andaman and Nicobar island and Army Public School, Nehru road, Lucknow.^[6] She graduated in commerce from Lucknow University.^[7]

Personal life

Dimple Rawat met Akhilesh Yadav when she was a student. Originally, Yadav's family was opposed to their marriage, but they agreed after his grandmother Murti Devi approved. The couple got married on 24 November 1999 when she was aged 21.^[8]^[3]^[1] Guests at her wedding included movie stars Amitabh Bachchan and Rajesh Khanna.^[9] The couple have two daughters and a son.^[10]

Political career

Yadav unsuccessfully contested the by-election for the Lok Sabha constituency of Firozabad in 2009 against actor turned politician Raj Babbar.^[11] 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.^[12]^[13]^[14]^[15] 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.

Yadav became the 44th person in the country and only the fourth in Uttar Pradesh since the independence of India to be elected unopposed.^[7] 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.^[7]

Yadav retained Kannauj Lok Sabha seat in 2014 Indian general election by defeating the nearest rival by 19,907 votes.^[16] In 2019 Indian general election, she contested as a joint candidate of the Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party, but lost to BJP's Subrat Pathak with a margin of more than 10,000 votes.^[17]

After the death of her father-in-law Mulayam Singh Yadav, Dimple Yadav was fielded from the vacant Mainpuri Lok Sabha constituency seat, which she won by defeating BJP's candidate with over 2.8 lakh votes.^[18]

#	From	To	Positions	Party
1.	2012	2014	MP (1st term) in 15th Lok Sabha from Kannauj (by-poll)	SP
2.	2014	2019	MP (2nd term) in 16th Lok Sabha from Kannauj	SP
3.	2022	Present	MP (3rd term) in 17th Lok Sabha from Mainpuri (by-poll)	SP

References

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^ Sinha, Anubhav (16 May 2014). "SP's Dimple Yadav retains Kannauj seat by registering a win over BJP's Subrat Pathak by a margin of 19907 votes". The Times of India. Retrieved 25 July 2023.
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