Despite Modi’s wave, this MBA won in UP

In election that saw the Congress party win a measly seven seats in Uttar Pradesh, one of those seats – the Rae Bareli constituency – was won by Aditi Singh. Aditi, who holds a management degree MBA from North Duke University, North Carolina, is the daughter of Akhilesh Singh, who has represented this Dalit-dominated constituency five times since 1993. When Singh started to feel his age, he asked Aditi to join the Congress. Though Singh had not been with the Congress since 2007, he still had good relations with some party leaders, and the party welcomed Aditi with open arms. Aditi was pitted against Shahbaz Khan of the Bahujan Samaj Party, Anita Srivastava of the Bharatiya Janata Party, and Bharati Pandey of the Rashtriya Lok Dal. It was a wise decision for the Congress which won a dismal two seats in what constitutes Sonia Gandhi’s parliamentary constituency. Had it not been for Aditi, the party may have lost this seat too. Aditi, who was educated in Mussourie and Delhi — fearing for her life, Akhilesh Singh had always kept her away from home — before going to the United States for higher education, returned to Rae Bareli only three years ago. Aditi Singh is currently only 28 years old. She was born in 1989, the year when her uncle Ashok Singh won Rae Bareli seat which remained with the family since then. source rediff.com