Sharad Yadav Biography – An Indian Politician from Rashtriya Janata Dal
Sharad Yadav was an Indian politician from Rashtriya Janata Dal party. He was elected to Lok Sabha seven times and to Rajya Sabha thrice from JD. He was the first national president of Janata Dal since its formation in 2003 till year 2016.
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| Real Name: | Sharad Yadav |
| Profession: | Indian politician |
| Birthplace: | Babai, Central Provinces, and Berar, British India |
| Spouse: | Rekha Yadav |
| Age: | 75 |
Sharad Yadav (1 July 1947 – 12 January 2023) was an Indian politician from Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) party. He was elected to Lok Sabha seven times and to Rajya Sabha thrice from JD(U). He was the first national president of Janata Dal (United) from its formation in 2003 till the year 2016. He was disqualified from Rajya Sabha and removed from party leadership positions for engaging in anti-party activities.
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Sharad Yadav Biography
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| Member of Parliament Lok Sabha | |
| In office 1974–19801989–1998 1999–20042009 – 2014 |
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| Ministry of Civil Aviation; Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food, and Public Distribution |
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| In office 1999–2004 |
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| Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha | |
| In office 1986–19892004–20092014 – 2017 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | 1 July 1947 Babai, Central Provinces, and Berar, British India (Present day Makhan Nagar, Madhya Pradesh, India) |
| Died | 12 January 2023 (aged 75) Gurugram, Haryana, India |
| Political party | Rashtriya Janata Dal |
| Other political affiliations |
Janata Dal (United) Loktantrik Janata Dal (until 2022) |
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Rekha Yadav (m. 1989)
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| Children | 2 |
| Residence | New Delhi |
| Alma mater | Jabalpur Engineering College (B.E) Robertson College Jabalpur (B.Sc) |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Website | http://www.sharadyadav.in/ |
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Political career
Parliamentary constituencies
Yadav was elected to Lok Sabha for the first time from Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh in 1974 in a by-poll. It was the time when the JP Movement was at its peak and he was the first candidate chosen by Shri Jai Prakash Narayan for the political arena on the election symbol of Haldar Kisan. In 1977, he was re-elected from the same constituency. When Janata Party split in 1979, he sided with the Charan Singh faction. When Rajiv Gandhi first entered Lok Sabha by winning a by-poll from Amethi in 1981, Sharad Yadav was the losing candidate on the Lok Dal ticket. He lost from Badaun in UP in 1984 on a Lok Dal ticket under Charan Singh’s leadership. He was elected from Badaun (Lok Sabha constituency) in the year 1989 as a Janata Dal member.
Thereafter, he contested the Madhepura Lok Sabha constituency in Bihar except in the by-election caused by Lalu Yadav resigning his seat in 2004. He won the Madhepura seat four times in 1991, 1996, 1999, and 2009. He has been defeated four times from the Madhepura constituency – twice by Lalu Prasad Yadav in 1998 and 2004, by Pappu Yadav of RJD in 2014, and by JD-U’s Dinesh Yadav in 2019 when Sharad Yadav contested on RJD’s ticket.
In 2017, he gave a speech comparing votes to daughter’s honor and suggesting to prefer the former. He was one of the accused in the hawala scandal; however, the charges were dismissed by the Supreme Court of India.
Loktantrik Janata Dal
The Loktantrik Janata Dal (LJD) is a political party in India launched by Sharad Yadav in May 2018 after he parted ways from Janata Dal (United) due to its alliance with Bharatiya Janata Party in Bihar.
A merger with Bahujan Mukti Party (founded on 6 December 2012) was proposed but was called off. and was set up as a political wing of All India Backward (SC, ST, OBC) and Minority Communities Employees Federation (BAMCEF). V. L. Matang is the current President of the Bahujan Mukti Party.
Personal life (Sharad Yadav Biography)
Yadav was born on 1 July 1947 to Nand Kishore Yadav and Sumitra Yadav in Babai village in the Hoshangabad district of Madhya Pradesh. He obtained his Bachelor of Science degree from Robertson College Jabalpur which branched into Government Science College, Jabalpur, and his Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering from Jabalpur Engineering College. He was an agriculturist, educationist, and engineer by profession. Most of his political career is from Bihar state. He married Rekha Yadav on 15 February 1989, with whom he has a son and a daughter. His daughter Subhashini Raja Rao joined Indian National Congress just before the 2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election and announced her plans to contest from the Bihariganj seat. She contested the seat as a candidate of RJD and lost. Sharad Yadav’s son Shantanu Bundela is a postgraduate from the University of London.
Yadav died on 12 January 2023 in Gurugram, at the age of 75.
Positions held (Sharad Yadav Biography)
| Year | Position held |
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| 1974 | Elected to 5th Lok Sabha in bye-election from Jabalpur constituency. |
| 1977 | Re-elected to 6th Lok Sabha (2nd term) from Jabalpur constituency and President, Yuva Janata Dal |
| 1978 | General Secretary, Lok Dal President, Yuva Lok Dal |
| July 1986 | Elected to Rajya Sabha |
| 1989–1991 | Elected to 9th Lok Sabha (3rd term) from Badaun constituency. |
| 1989–1997 | General Secretary, Janata Dal; Chairman, Janata Dal Parliamentary Board |
| 1989–1990 | Union Cabinet Minister, Textiles and Food Processing Industries |
| 1991–1996 | Re-elected to 10th Lok Sabha (4th term) from Madhepura constituency and Member, of Public Accounts Committee |
| 1996–1997 | Re-elected to 11th Lok Sabha (5th term) from Madhepura constituency and Chairman, Finance Committee |
| 1997–1999 | President, Janata Dal |
| 1999–2004 | Re-elected to 13th Lok Sabha (6th term) from Madhepura constituency and defeated Lalu Prasad Yadav |
| 13 October 1999 – 31 August 2001 | Union Cabinet Minister, Civil Aviation |
| 1 September 2001 – 30 June 2002 | Union Cabinet Minister, Labour |
| 1 July 2002 – 15 May 2004 | Union Cabinet Minister, Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution |
| July 2004 | Re-elected to Rajya Sabha (2nd term); Member, Business Advisory Committee, Member, Committee on Water Resources, Member, General Purposes Committee, Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Home Affairs |
| May 2006 – May 2009 | Member, Parliamentary Forum on Population and Public Health |
| June 2006 – May 2009 and October 2014 onwards | Member, Committee on Ethics |
| September 2007 onwards | President, India-Nepal Parliamentary Group |
| October 2007 – May 2009 | Member, Samsad (Court) of Visva Bharati |
| May 2008 – May 2009 | Member, Committee on Installation of Portraits/Statues of National Leaders and Parliamentarians in Parliament House Complex |
| 2009–2014 | Re-elected to 15th Lok Sabha (7th term) from Madhepura constituency |
| 31 August 2009 – 2010 | Chairman, Committee on Urban Development |
| March 2011 – October 2013 | Member, JPC to examine matters relating to Allocation and pricing of Telecom Licences and Spectrum |
| December 2013 | Vice-President, Parliamentary Forum on Millennium Development Goals |
| 2014 | Re-elected to Rajya Sabha (3rd term) |
| September 2014 onwards | Member, General Purposes Committee |
| September 2014 – August 2016 | Member, Committee on Petroleum and Natural Gas |
| October 2014 – July 2016 | Member, Joint Parliamentary Committee on Maintenance of Heritage Character and Development of Parliament House Complex |
| December 2014 – July 2016 | Chairman, Committee on Provision of Computers to Members of Rajya Sabha |
| April 2015 – July 2016 | Member, Joint Parliamentary Committee on Security in Parliament House Complex |
| May 2015 – July 2016 | Member, Joint Committee on the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (Second Amendment) Bill, 2015 |
| June 2016 – December 2017 | Re-elected to Rajya Sabha (fourth term) |
| July 2016 – September 2017 | Chairman, Committee on Industry |
| November – December 2017 | Member, Joint Committee on Offices of Profit Member, Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas |
| April – July 2017 | Member, Select Committee of Rajya Sabha on the Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty-third Amendment) Bill, 2017 |
