The Samajwadi Party is a socialist political party in India. It was founded on 4 October 1992 by former Janata Dal politician Mulayam Singh Yadav and is headquartered in New Delhi. The Samajwadi Party is currently led by former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh,Akhilesh Yadav.
Ayesha Azmi,born and known professionally as Ayesha Takia is an Indian former actress and model who worked predominantly in Hindi films. Takia made her debut in 2004 with the action thriller Taarzan:The Wonder Car for which she won the Filmfare Best Debut Award and IIFA Award Star Debut of the Year Female. She then subsequently appeared in several successful films including Socha Na Tha (2005),Salaam-e-Ishq (2007),Wanted (2009),and Paathshaala (2010). She is the recipient of the Bengal Film Journalists' Association awards and Screen Awards.
Raj Shrikant Thackeray is an Indian politician and the founding chairperson of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS),a regional political party. He is the nephew of ShivSena Founder Balasaheb Thackeray.
Amar Singh was an Indian politician from the state of Uttar Pradesh. He was the general secretary of the Samajwadi Party and was a member of the Rajya Sabha,the upper house of the Indian parliament. On 6 January 2010,he resigned from all the posts of the Samajwadi Party and was later expelled from the party by its chief,Mulayam Singh Yadav,on 2 February 2010.
Ram Gopal Yadav is an Indian politician from Uttar Pradesh. He is the Secretary-General of the Samajwadi Party and the Member of Parliament (MP) in Rajya Sabha,since 2008. Yadav also served as Lok Sabha MP of Sambhal from 2004 to 2008.
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.
Chaudhary Munawwar Hasan was an MP and political activist during Mulayam Singh Yadav's Government between 2003 and 2007.
The Republican Left Democratic Front (RiDaLoS) was a coalition of political parties in the Indian state of Maharashtra formed before the 2009 Maharashtra state assembly elections,in Maharashtra. The alliance was forged between 14 political parties and many other NGOs and non political groups as well as students organisations in Maharashtra Republican Left Democratic Front Popularly known as RIDALOS as an alternative to the existing coalitions in the state.
Dharmendra Yadav is an Indian politician from Uttar Pradesh. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) in the 16th Lok Sabha representing Badaun constituency as Samajwadi Party candidate.
Mankhurd Shivaji Nagar Assembly constituency is one of the 288 Vidhan Sabha constituencies of Maharashtra state in western India.
Dara Singh Chauhan is an Indian politician,currently serving as member of legislative council,and formerly represented the Madhuban in Uttar Pradesh as a member of Bharatiya Janata Party. He was former Cabinet Minister in Yogi Adityanath ministry. He also represented Ghosi in the 15th Lok Sabha,where he was leader of the Bahujan Samaj Party. In 16th Lok Sabha,he was defeated by Harinarayan Rajbhar who represented Bharatiya Janata Party by more than 140,000 votes.
Mulayam Singh Yadav was an Indian politician,a socialist figure and founder of the Samajwadi Party. Over the course of his political career spanning more than six decades,he served for three terms as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh,and also as the Union Minister of Defence in the Government of India. A long-time parliamentarian,he was a seven-time Member of Parliament representing Mainpuri,Azamgarh,Sambhal and Kannauj constituencies in the Lok Sabha,a ten-time member of the Legislative Assembly,member of the Legislative Council and the Leader of Opposition several times as well. Yadav was a prominent figure of his time in Uttar Pradesh politics,and was often referred to as Netaji and sometimes Dhartiputra by his party leaders and workers. In 2023,he was posthumously conferred with Padma Vibhushan,India’s second highest civilian award by the Government of India.
The 2013 Mumbai gang rape,also known as the Shakti Mills gang rape,refers to the incident in which a 22-year-old photojournalist,who was interning with an English-language magazine in Mumbai,was gang-raped by five people including a juvenile. The incident occurred on 22 August 2013,when she had gone to the deserted Shakti Mills compound,near Mahalaxmi in South Mumbai,with a male colleague on an assignment. The accused had tied up the victim's colleague with belts and raped her. The accused took photos of the victim during the sexual assault,and threatened to release them to social networks if she reported the rape. Later,an eighteen-year-old call centre employee reported that she too had been gang-raped,on 31 July 2013 inside the mills complex.
Surendra Singh Nagar is an Indian politician and Member of Parliament in Rajya Sabha since July 2016. He was also a Member of Parliament in the 15th Lok Sabha from Gautam Buddha Nagar constituency of Uttar Pradesh as a Bahujan Samaj Party candidate. He was a member of Bahujan Samaj Party from May 2008 to 2014. He joined Samajwadi Party before the Lok Sabha elections in 2014. On 10 August 2019,he joined Bharatiya Janta Party.
The partial list of political families of Uttar Pradesh state of India and their notable members:
Nawab Malik is an Indian politician who served as the Minority Development,Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Minister of Maharashtra and also the guardian minister of Gondia &Parbhani. He is the National Spokesperson and Mumbai President of the Nationalist Congress Party.
Bukkal Nawab is an Indian Politician from the BJP and an ex-senior leader of the Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh. Nawab was a close associate of the Samajwadi Party patron Mulayam Singh Yadav,but he joined BJP and is now considered close to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. He belongs to a prominent Nawab family while his ancestors served as the heads in the Royal Kingdom of Awadh. His father Dara Nawab served as an Aviator under the Indian Government. Nawab started his political career in 1989 when he emerged victorious as an independent candidate from the Daulatganj ward in the Lucknow Nagar Nigam elections and topped the state on the basis of highest marginal win.
Naresh Chandra Agrawal is an Indian politician who was a member of the Rajya Sabha in India.
I Will Go Out was a nationwide march carried on 21 January 2017 in India to demand women's right to fair and equitable access to public spaces. People marched across 30 cities and towns of India including Bengaluru,Delhi,Pune,Chennai,Mumbai,Kolkata,Hyderabad,Lucknow,Puducherry,Silchar,Nagpur,Ahmedabad,Jaipur,Bhopal,Udaipur,Kochi and Karimganj and was organized by a collective of individuals and organisations.
Fahad Ahmad is an Indian student activist and politician who is member of the Nationalist Congress Party –Sharadchandra Pawar. He was previously a Member of Samajwadi Party and had served as President of Samajwadi Yuvjan Sabha in Maharashtra.
