Enter, the new ‘netaji’ ?

The biodata is impressive . At 38, Akhilesh Yadav is already a three-term MP, is right now leading the UP election campaign of the Samajwadi Party, and is in line to inherit the mantle of one of the state's premium political brands. For now, though, the young politician has a big job at hand. Sometime before May next year, the voters of UP will tell him if he is to lord over a thriving empire or a shrinking party. After a string of electoral debacles, this is make-or-break time for the Yadav scion and as the spearhead of the party's poll effort he has reasons to be both elated and anxious.

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