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.
Ayodhya district is one of the 75 districts in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The city of Ayodhya is its administrative headquarters. The district occupies an area of 2,522 square kilometres (974 sq mi),and had a population of 2,470,996 in the 2011 census. Ayodhya district shares its borders with 6 districts of Uttar Pradesh. It is bordered by Gonda and Basti districts on the northern side,Amethi and Sultanpur districts on the south,and Ambedkar Nagar and Barabanki districts share the border on the east and west.
Parasnath Yadav was an Indian politician and was elected 7 times MLA in Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh,3 times Minister in Government of Uttar Pradesh and 2 times Member of Parliament from Jaunpur. He was suffering from bladder cancer for many years,eventually he died on the 12 June 2020 at his residence in Jaunpur district,Uttar Pradesh.
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.
Mohammad Azam Khan is an Indian politician,lawyer and elected representative who has served as the Member of Parliament from Rampur. He is one of the founding members of the Samajwadi Party and was a member of the Seventeenth Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh. He was also the senior most Cabinet Minister in the Government of Uttar Pradesh and has been elected member of the legislative assembly ten times from Rampur assembly constituency. He was disqualified from his elected seat when he received a two-year prison sentence from the court.
Shivpal Singh Yadav is a politician and educationist from Uttar Pradesh,India. He was born in Saifai village,Etawah district,and is a younger brother of Samajwadi Party leader late Mulayam Singh Yadav and uncle of the former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh,Akhilesh Yadav. He is a Member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly,representing the Jaswantnagar seat in Etawah district,from 1996 till now. He is also the National General Secretary of Samajwadi Party and was appointed on 29 January 2023.
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.
Ram Govind Chaudhary is one of the prominent socialist leaders of India who has served as the Leader of the Opposition in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly from 2017 to 2022. He was in charge of Basic Education and Child Nutrition and Development Ministries in previous Samajwadi Party Government of Uttar Pradesh led by Akhilesh Yadav. He is Member of Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh from the Bansdih assembly seat,Ballia.
Keshav Prasad Maurya is an Indian politician,currently serving as the Deputy Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Maurya was associated with a right-wing Hindu organization Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh,before entering active politics through BJP. He was also involved in cow protectionism in his early life. Before 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly elections,he was made state president of the BJP,and after the victory of BJP,he was appointed Deputy Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh in the first Yogi Adityanath Government. Maurya again contested the legislative assembly elections in 2022 from Sirathu Assembly constituency,losing to Pallavi Patel of Samajwadi Party. However,he was given a second term as Deputy CM in the second Yogi Adityanath government.
Arun Verma is an Indian musical artist,politician and actor also he is the member of the Samajwadi Party. He was previously MLA of Sadar constituency of Sultanpur,Uttar Pradesh.
Swami Prasad Maurya is an Indian politician and was a member of the 17th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh of India. He represented the Padrauna constituency of Uttar Pradesh. He was a member of Samajwadi Party till 2024 to which he resigned. Maurya has been a Member of the legislative assembly for five terms,has been a minister in the government of Uttar Pradesh,Leader of the house,and Leader of the opposition. He was serving as Cabinet Minister for Labour,Employment and Co-ordination in Yogi Adityanath ministry. Until 2021,he was a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party which he joined after a long stint with Bahujan Samaj Party.
Rampal Yadav is an Indian politician and a member of the 16th Legislative Assembly in India. He represents the Biswan constituency of Uttar Pradesh and was a member of the Samajwadi Party political party until 2017.
Raj Kishor Singh is an Indian politician who served as a member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly for the state Samajwadi Party from 2002 to 2017. He was a minister for Panchayati raj. Before the government of Mulayam Singh,Mr Singh was also a cabinet minister.
Virendra Kumar Yadav is an Indian politician and a member of the 17th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh of India. He represents the Jangipur Assembly constituency in Ghazipur district of Uttar Pradesh and is a member of the Samajwadi Party.
Ayodhya is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Ayodhya in the Ayodhya district of Uttar Pradesh,India. It is one of five assembly constituencies in the Faizabad Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008,this assembly constituency is numbered 275 amongst 403 constituencies.
Vinod Kumar Singh alias Pandit Singh was an Indian politician from the state of Uttar Pradesh. A three-time legislator and a senior member of the Samajwadi Party,Pandit Singh represented Gonda assembly constituency in the 13th,14th and 16th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly which is the lower house of the bicameral legislature of Uttar Pradesh. He also served as a cabinet minister in the Govt. of Uttar Pradesh under the chief ministership of Akhilesh Yadav. He also contested the 2019 parliamentary elections from Gonda but lost to Kirti Vardhan Singh of BJP. He died on 7 May 2021 from COVID-19 related complications at the age of 59 years.
The 2024 Indian general election was held in Uttar Pradesh in seven phases from 19 April to 1 June to elect 80 members of the 18th Lok Sabha,with the results declared on 4 June. Bypolls for Dadraul,Lucknow East,Gainsari,and Duddhi assembly constituencies were held alongside this election.
Ved Prakash Gupta is an Indian politician from Uttar Pradesh. In 2022,Ved Prakash Gupta,a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party,won from the prestigious Ayodhya Assembly constituency,where the Ram Mandir is located.
Awadhesh Prasad is an Indian politician who is a founding member of the Samajwadi Party (SP) and an MP in the 18th Lok Sabha representing Faizabad. He is presently the general secretary of the national executive of SP and he was a member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly till 11 June 2024 when he was elected as an MP. He has been a nine time MLA elected from the erstwhile Sohawal (SC) constituency in 1977,1985,1989,1993,1996,2002 and 2007 and as of latest from Milkipur (SC) in 2012 and 2022. He has become a minister for six times in the Government of Uttar Pradesh and been a cabinet minister in four of them.
