Akhilesh Yadav is an Indian politician and national president of the Samajwadi Party who served as the 20th Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. Having assumed the chief minister's office on 15 March 2012 at the age of 38, he is the youngest person to have held the office till date. Yadav is the incumbent Member of Parliament for Kannauj in the 18th Lok Sabha and the parliamentary party leader of Samajwadi Party in 18th Lok Sabha. A son of veteran Indian politician, Mulayam Singh Yadav, he was elected as the Member of the 13th Lok Sabha in the year 2000 ( by-poll) for the Kannauj constituency. He was elected as the Member of Legislative Assembly for Karhal in the 18th Vidhan Sabha, before resigning and has also been the Leader of Opposition in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly from March 2022 to June 2024.
Competitive exam aspirants gathered at the UP Public Service Commission headquarters in Prayagraj to protest against multi-shift..