Background
Dimple was born in 1978 to the retired Indian Army Colonel South Carolina Rawat at Almora as the second of three daughters.
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Dimple Yadav
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Education
She was educated in Pune, Bhatinda and Andaman and Nicobar island. She graduated in commerce from Lucknow University.
Career
Her family is originally from Uttarakhand. One of her hobbies is horse riding. She"s the sixth member from Mulayam Singh Yadav"s family who has taken a plunge in politics.
Some of guests at her wedding included Amitabh Bachchan and Rajesh Khanna.
Dimple Yadav unsuccessfully contested the by-election for Lok Sabha constituency of Firozabad in 2009 against actor turned politician Raj Babbar. Prior to her entry into politics, she had been involved in a disproportionate wealth case along with her family members.
Dimple became the 44th person in the country and only the fourth in Uttar Pradesh since Independence to be elected unopposed. The election went unopposed after two candidates, Dashrath Singh Shankwar (Samyukt Samajwadi Dal) and Sanju Katiyar (Independent) withdrew their nominations.
Bharatiya Janata Party and Indian National Congress had not nominated any candidates for the by-election.
Though 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 West in 1952. Yadav was embroiled in controversy when she commented defensively against the growing degree of rapes in her state(Uttar Pradesh).
Yadav is now termed as celebrity Member of Parliament in Uttar Pradesh.
Many people and organizations are always keen to invite her in their functions.
Membership
She became the only woman Member of Parliament whose husband was Chief Minister, and also one whose father-in-law was also a member of the same House.
