Dimple Yadav (née Rawat; born 15 January 1978; ) is an Indian politician and the incumbent member of parliament from Mainpuri of

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. She has earlier been a member of the

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for two terms from

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and currently serving as 2nd term from Mainpuri Lok Sabha constituency. Yadav is married to

Samajwadi Party The Samajwadi Party ( SP; ) is a Socialism, 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. It is the third-largest political party in ...

president and former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister,

Akhilesh Yadav Akhilesh Yadav (; born 1 July 1973) 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 ...

. Yadav is the daughter-in-law of Mulayam Singh Yadav, former Defence Minister of India, former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and founder-patron of the Samajwadi Party.

Early life and education

Dimple Yadav was born on 15 January 1978 at

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. She is the second of three daughters of retired Indian Army Col. Ram Chandra Singh Rawat and Champa Rawat. Her family is originally from

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. She was educated in Pune, Bathinda and Andaman and Nicobar island and Army Public School, Nehru road,

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. She graduated in commerce from Lucknow University.

Personal life

Dimple Rawat met

when she was a student. Originally, Yadav's family was opposed to their marriage, but they agreed after his grandmother Murti Devi approved. The couple got married on 24 November 1999 when she was aged 21. Guests at her wedding included movie stars Amitabh Bachchan and Rajesh Khanna. The couple have two daughters Aditi and Tina Yadav and a son Arjun Yadav.

Political career

Yadav unsuccessfully contested the by-election for the

constituency of Firozabad in 2009 against actor turned politician

Raj Babbar Raj Babbar (born 23 June 1952) is an Indian Hindi and Punjabi language, Punjabi film actor and politician belonging to Indian National Congress. He is a three-time member of the Lok Sabha and a two-time member of the Rajya Sabha. He was the sta ...

. The by-election was caused by her husband winning a seat in the May 2009 general elections both in this constituency as well as in

and taking up his seat from there. She was elected unopposed from the Kannauj constituency to the Lok Sabha in 2012, after her husband caused another by-election by vacating the seat to enter the Uttar Pradesh legislative council. Yadav became the 44th person in the country and only the fourth in

since the

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to be elected unopposed. This situation arose when two candidates, Dashrath Singh Shankwar (Samyukt Samajwadi Dal) and Sanju Katiyar (Independent), withdrew their nominations.

Bharatiya Janata Party The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; , ) is a political party in India and one of the two major List of political parties in India, Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. BJP emerged out from Syama Prasad Mukherjee's ...

and

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had not nominated any candidates for the by-election; though the BJP clarified later that their candidate missed his train so he failed to reach in time to file his nomination. This made her the first woman from Uttar Pradesh to elected unopposed in a Lok Sabha by-election, and second person after Purshottam Das Tandon's election from

Allahabad Prayagraj (, ; ISO 15919, ISO: ), formerly and colloquially known as Allahabad, is a metropolis in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.The other five cities were: Agra, Kanpur, Kanpur (Cawnpore), Lucknow, Meerut, and Varanasi, Varanasi (Benar ...

West in 1952. She became the only woman MP whose husband was Chief Minister, and also one whose father-in-law was also a member of the same House. Yadav retained

Lok Sabha seat in 2014 Indian general election by defeating the nearest rival by 19,907 votes. In

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, she contested as a joint candidate of the

and

Bahujan Samaj Party The Bahujan Samaj Party ( BSP) is a political party in India that was formed to represent Bahujans (literally means "community in majority"), referring to Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and Other Backward Classes (OBC), along with Religious ...

, but lost to BJP's Subrat Pathak with a margin of more than 10,000 votes. After the death of her father-in-law Mulayam Singh Yadav, Dimple Yadav was fielded from the vacant Mainpuri Lok Sabha constituency seat, which she won by defeating BJP's candidate with over 2.8

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votes. In 2024, Dimple Yadav retained Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat which she won with a margin victory of 2,21,639 votes, defeating the BJP's Jayveer Singh. Dimple won by securing 5,98,526 votes, while Jayveer Singh, managed 3,76,887 votes. The seat has been with the

since 1996 and its journey of victories is marked by a series of electoral wins.

References

External links

Official biographical sketch in Parliament of India website
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