Akhilesh Yadav is UP Chief Minister
posted on Mar 10, 2012 @ 11:03AM
Akhilesh Yadav is the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister elect now. A meeting of Samajwadi Party MLAs held this morning has elected Akhilesh as their leader. He will formally stake claim to form the government and is likely to be sworn in on 12 March, said the sources.
At 39, Akhilesh, currently the MP from Kannauj, will be UP’s youngest chief minister. The family of Mulayam Singh Yadav has arrived at a consensus that the party chief will focus on national politics while Akhilesh runs UP. There has been uncertainty over who among father and son would be CM ever since the SP roared to victory with 224 seats in the 403-member UP house on March 6.
Samajwadi Party's senior most leaders - Shivpal Singh Yadav, Mulayam Singh’s brother and MLA from Jaswantnagar, and Azam Khan, MLA from Rampur - proposed Akhilesh’s name, which was accepted unanimously. The proposal was supported by Atrauliya MLA Dr Sangram Yadav, son of senior leader Balram Yadav, and seconded by Hardoi MLA Nitin Agarwal.