Yadav is the Member of Parliament for Azamgarh in the 17th Lok Sabha, being elected in 2019.
Akhilesh Yadav is an active politician serving the Samajwadi Party.
He is the 20th Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh.
His first significant success in politics was being elected as the Member of the Lok Sabha for the Kannauj constituency in 2000.
He is the son of veteran politician Mulayam Singh Yadav, the founder-patron of Samajwadi Party who has served as the Minister of Defence in the Government of India and three terms as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh.
Yadav also launched the "UP100 Police Service", "Women Power Line 1090" and "108 Ambulance Service".