November 24, 1999: He
married Dimple rawat, who is also a politician.
2000: elected to the 13th Lok
Sabha from Kannauj in a by-election in 2000.
2000-2001: Member of the
Committee on Ethics.
2004-2009: Elected as a member of the
14th Lok Sabha for a second term.
2009: He was elected to the
15th Lok Sabha for a third term.
March 10, 2012: appointed as
leader of the Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh.
March 15, 2012: at the age of 38 years,
he became the youngest Chief Minister of
Uttar Pradesh.
May 03, 2012: resigned from the
Kannauj seat to further serve as the Chief Minister
of Uttar Pradesh after his party won the Assembly elections.
May 05, 2012: He became a Member of the
Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council.
December 30, 2016: He was
fired from the party by his father one day after he released
a separate list of candidates for the upcoming elections. He
was readmitted to the party within a day.
January 01, 2017: He was
elected as Samajwadi Party's national head by the party's
national convention in Lucknow. This meant he replaced his
father, who said the appointment was illegal.
January 18, 2017: His father,
Mulayam Singh Yadav, recognised the decision of the Election
Commission of India to accept Akhilesh as party president.
March 19, 2017: He retired
and stepped down as Chief Minister of UP, after his party's
defeat by the BJP in UP assembly elections. Samajadi Party
could muster only 55 seats.
July 31, 2017: Rajya Sabha
MP and former Samajwadi Party General Secretary Amar Singh
likened SP chief Akhilesh Yadav to Aurangzeb and said his
father Mulayam Singh Yadav was likened to Shah Jahan. He
further said "One who cannot honour his father loses trust
of people as well". Mughal emperor Aurangzeb had held his
father Shah Jahan captive after a tussle for the throne.
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Son of another Indian politician,
Mulayam Singh Yadav.
