Sitaram Yadav (politician, born 1946)

Sitaram Yadav (born 5 January 1946) is an Indian politician who was a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Sitamarhi constituency of Bihar as a member of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) political party.

In January 2021, he joined Bhartiya Janata Party in presence of Bhupendra Yadav and Bihar state BJP president Sanjay Jaiswal.^[1]

Early life

Yadav was born in Sitamarhi, Bihar, India to Raghunandan Gope and Sundarwati Devi.^{[citation needed]} He is the first in a family of five sons. He received bachelor's degrees in Law and Education from Bihar University, Muzaffarpur.^{[citation needed]} After graduation, he found employment as a teacher in a Madhubani middle school.^{[citation needed]}

Political career

Early in his political career, Yadav served as Mukhiya of the Nayatol Panchayat and as Block Parmukh of Nanpur block.^{[citation needed]}

He was elected to the Bihar Legislative Assembly from the Pupri constituency in 1990 for the Janta Dal party and was re-elected in 1995.^{[citation needed]}

He was elected to the Lok Sabha from the Sitamarhi constituency in Bihar as a candidate of RJD in 1998.^{[citation needed]}

He returned to state politics in 2000 to be elected to the Pupri constituency for the third time. He was sworn in as Cabinet Minister for Information, Press and Public Relations on 4 April 2000 under the Rabri Devi government.^{[citation needed]}

He was re-elected to Lok Sabha from the Sitamarhi constituency as a candidate of RJD in 2004.^{[citation needed]}

External links

• Home Page on the Parliament of India's Website

References

This page was last edited on 14 August 2023, at 05:50