Laxmi Narayan Yadav is a

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leader and former

member of parliament (MP) A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members oft ...

Bhartiya Janta Party The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; ; ) is a political party in India, and one of the two major Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. Since 2014, it has been the ruling political party in India under Narendra Modi ...

. He has won the

2014 Indian general elections General elections were held in India in nine phases from 7 April to 12 May 2014 to elect the members of the 16th Lok Sabha. With 834 million registered voters, they were the largest-ever elections in the world until being surpassed by the 2019 ...

from the Sagar (Lok Sabha constituency). He is two times MLA from

Surkhi (Vidhan Sabha constituency) Surkhi Assembly constituency is one of the 230 Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha, Vidhan Sabha (Legislative Assembly) constituencies of Madhya Pradesh state in central India. This constituency came into existence in 1951, as one of the Vidhan Sabha co ...

assembly seat of Sagar district in

Madhya Pradesh Madhya Pradesh (, ; meaning 'central province') is a state in central India. Its capital city, capital is Bhopal, and the largest city is Indore, with Jabalpur, Ujjain, Gwalior, Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, Sagar, and Rewa, India, Rewa being the othe ...

. First time, he was elected in 1977 from

from

Janata Party The Janata Party ( JP, lit. ''People's Party'') was a political party that was founded as an amalgam of Indian political parties opposed to the Emergency that was imposed between 1975 and 1977 by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of the Indian Nat ...

. He has defeated

Vitthalbhai Patel Vitthalbhai Patel (21 May 1936 – 7 September 2013) was an Indian poet, lyricist, and senior Congress leader known for his contributions in social services and politics as well as for penning several Hindi film songs, including "Na Maangu Sona ...

who was a Congress leader and Jhooth Bole Kauwa Kaate famed Bollywood lyricist and poet and industrialist. During the same tenure in 1978 – 1980 he served as Minister for Higher Education, in Government of Madhya Pradesh in the

Sakhlecha ministry Virendra Kumar Sakhlecha was the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh from 18 January 1978 to 19 January 1980. Here are the names of ministers in his ministry: Cabinet Ministers *Virendra Kumar Sakhlecha-Chief Minister *Kailash Joshi * Ramhit Gupta ...

. Mr.

Virendra Kumar Sakhlecha Virendra Kumar Sakhlecha (4 March 1930 – 31 May 1999) was an Indian politician who served as the 10th Chief Minister Of Madhya Pradesh from 18 January 1978 to 19 January 1980. He was a leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He hailed from Man ...

was the then chief minister. Second time, in 1989, Mr. Yadav again defeated Patel from the same constituency.

Personal life

Mr. Yadav was born on Dec. 9, 1944 in Sagar, Madhya Pradesh. Mr. Yadav married Mrs Gayatri Devi on June 29, 1961. He has a son

Sudheer Yadav Sudheer is an Indian given name. People * Sudheer (Kannada actor) *Sudheer (Malayalam actor) *Sudheer Babu, Indian actor and former professional badminton player * Sudheer Karamana, Indian actor of Malayalam films *Sudheer Sharma, Nepali author an ...

who is a member of Bhartiya Janta Party and a daughter. His son

(also spelled as Sudhir Yadav) fought assembly elections from Banda (Vidhan Sabha constituency) in Sagar district, Madhya Pradesh from Bharatiya Janshakti Party of

Uma Bharti Uma Bharti (born 3 May 1959) is an Indian politician and former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh. She became involved with the Bharatiya Janata Party at a young age, unsuccessfully contesting her first parliamentary elections in 1984. In 1989, ...

but couldn't succeed. He again fought for assembly in 2018 from

but lost again.

Election results

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Laxmi Narayan Yadav
''india.gov.in'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Yadav, Laxmi Narayan Living people India MPs 2014–2019 Lok Sabha members from Madhya Pradesh People from Sagar district 1944 births Madhya Pradesh MLAs 1977–1980 Madhya Pradesh MLAs 1990–1992 Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Madhya Pradesh