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Akhilesh becomes UP chief minister
Thursday March 15, 2012 04:58:50 PM,
IANS
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Lucknow: Nine days
after his Samajwadi Party won a thumping majority in Uttar
Pradesh, Akhilesh Yadav was sworn in Thursday as the 33rd chief
minister of India's most populous state.
The 38-year-old, the youngest to govern Uttar Pradesh, took oath
in the name of god at 11.34 a.m. at the huge La Martiniere College
grounds here, watched by thousands of cheering supporters.
The son of Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, Akhilesh
Yadav was credited with steering the party to victory in Uttar
Pradesh. It won 224 of the 403 seats in the assembly.
On Wednesday, Akhilesh Yadav admitted that government formation
would not be an easy task and that he would try to have a mix of
experienced and new faces in his cabinet.
Currently a Lok Sabha MP, Akhilesh Yadav will now get elected to
the Uttar Pradesh legislature.
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