Sharad Yadav

Sharad Yadav (2013)

Sharad Yadav ( Hindi शरद यादव , born July 1, 1947 in Akhmau , Hoshangabad District , Madhya Pradesh , India ) is an Indian politician in the state of Bihar .

biography

Sharad Yadav was born into a farming family in Madhya Pradesh. His parents were Nand Kishore Yadav and Sumitra Yadav. He first attended the local Robertson College and then studied at Jabalpur University , where he obtained a B.Sc. and a BE (Bachelor in Electrical Engineering). From the 1970s Yadav was politically active. In 1974 he was elected in a by-election as a candidate for the Bharatiya Lok Dal (BLD) in the constituency 25-Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh in the Lok Sabha . In the parliamentary elections in 1977 he was able to win the constituency again. He was unsuccessful in the following elections, but was elected to the Rajya Sabha in 1986 and only won a Lok Sabha mandate in the constituency 10-Budaun in Uttar Pradesh in 1989 , this time under the ticket of the recently founded Janata Dal . In the all- India parliamentary elections in 1996 , he won the constituency 21-Madhepura in Bihar as a Janata Dal candidate. From 1989 to 1997 Yadav was general secretary of Janata Dal and in 1997 he became party president. After the disintegration of the Janata Dal between 1997 and 1999, he joined the Janata Dal (United) (JD (U)), one of the successor parties that had its focus in Bihar, and became its party leader. The JD (U) has been allied with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) within the National Democratic Alliance since it was founded in 1999 . The main common opponent in Bihar was the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) under Yadav's former party colleague from the 1990s, Lalu Prasad Yadav . Since 1998 he has also been running regularly in the constituency of 21-Madhepura . The constituency was won alternately by one of the two Yadavs in the Indian elections from 1998 to 2009, and Sharad Yadav was successful in 1999 and 2009 .

In the coalition cabinet formed in 1999 under Prime Minister Vajpayee , Yadav held several ministerial posts. He was Minister of Civil Aviation from October 13, 1999 to August 31, 2001, then Minister of Labor from September 1, 2001 to June 30, 2002, and Minister of Consumer Affairs and Food from July 1, 2002 to May 15, 2004. In 2004 Yadav was elected to the Rajya Sabha .

In 2013 the longstanding alliance between BJP and JD (U) broke up. In the following parliamentary election in 2014 , the BJP achieved an election victory and the JD (U) won only two out of 40 constituencies in Bihar. Yadav also lost his constituency 21-Madhepura . On June 12, 2014 he was elected to the Rajya Sabha for the JD (U).

When the JD (U), at the instigation of its chairman Nitish Kumar, left the grand coalition formed in 2013 with the Congress Party and the RJD and entered into a coalition with the BJP in Bihar in July 2017, a JD (U) faction led by Yadav wanted it Not going with step and split off from the JD (U). On May 18, 2018, the founding of a new political party from Sharad Yadav's former JD (U) faction was announced in Delhi. The new party was named Loktantrik Janata Dal .

Personal

On February 15, 1989, Yadav married Dr. Rekha Yadav, with whom he has a son and a daughter.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Detailed Profile: Shri Sharad Yadav. Retrieved October 18, 2015 (English, information from the Lok Sabha website). 
2. ^ Election Results - Full Statistical Reports. Indian Election Commission, accessed on October 17, 2015 (English, election results of all Indian elections to the Lok Sabha and the parliaments of the states since independence). 
3. ↑ Javadekar, Sharad Yadav elected unopposed to Rajya Sabha. The Hindu, June 12, 2018, accessed November 25, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Ex-Janata Dal Member Sharad Yadav Launches' Loktantrik Janata Dal "Party. NDTV, July 5, 2018, accessed on November 25, 2018 (English).