Renu Kumari Yadav ( Nepali: रेणु कुमारी यादव) (born 16 January 1959) is a Nepali politician and member of

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on proportional representation. She most recently served as the Minister for Physical Infrastructure and Transportation of Nepal in the ruling coalition government led by Prime Minister and

Nepali Congress The Nepali Congress ( ne, नेपाली कांग्रेस ; abbr. NC) is the largest social democratic political party in Nepal. As per the results of recent local election, ''Nepali Congress'' stands as the single largest party o ...

President

Sher Bahadur Deuba Sher Bahadur Deuba ( ne, शेरबहादुर देउवा, ; born 13 June 1946) is a Nepali politician and former prime minister of Nepal. He has also been serving as the president of the Nepali Congress since 2016. Deuba has served ...

. Recently, Yadav resigned from the

People's Socialist Party, Nepal The People's Socialist Party, Nepal ( abbr. PSP-N; ne, जनता समाजवादी पार्टी, नेपाल), also known as Janata Samajbadi Party is the sixth-largest political party in Nepal. Since the 2022 local electio ...

Personal life

Yadav was born on June 19, 1963, in Forbesganj, India to Rameshwor Prasad and Chintamani Devi Yadav. She belongs to the

Ahir Ahir or Aheer are a community of traditionally non-elite pastoralists in India, most members of which identify as being of the Indian Yadav community because they consider the two terms to be synonymous. The Ahirs are variously described as a ...

community.

Political life

Yadav was elected as a

Rastriya Prajatantra Party The Rastriya Prajatantra Party (; ne, राष्ट्रिय प्रजातन्त्र पार्टी, lit=National Democratic Party; , ( ne, राप्रपा)) is a constitutional monarchist and Hindu nationalist politic ...

(RPP) candidate to the

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in the 1999 election from the Saptari 3 constituency. In 2002 she was elected to the central committee of the RPP. In June 2003, she was named Minister for Women, Children and Social Affairs in the

Surya Bahadur Thapa Surya Bahadur Thapa ( ne, सूर्य बहादुर थापा; March 21, 1928 – April 15, 2015) was a Nepali politician and a five-time Prime Minister of Nepal. He served under three different kings in a political career lasting mor ...

-led cabinet appointed by

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. When the RPP was divided and Thapa broke away and formed the

Rastriya Janshakti Party Rastriya Janashakti Party was a liberal political party in Nepal, led by former Prime Minister Surya Bahadur Thapa. Thapa had split away from the Rastriya Prajatantra Party in November 2004.

, Yadav joined the new RJP. In February 2008 she resigned from the parliament and left RJP, in support of the Madhesi agitation. In April 2008, she won the Saptari 4 seat in the Constituent Assembly election as a Madhesi Janadhikar Forum candidate. In late May 2008, she was included in the central committee of MJF. She was subsequently appointed as Minister of Education and sworn in on August 22, 2008."Cabinet formed including MJF, UML fails to join"
Nepalnews, August 22, 2008.

Controversies

* Leading party split : As per trusted sources and national media's, Yadav wanted to split the with seven other MPs which included

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, Pradeep Yadav,

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, Kalu Devi Bishwakarma and

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. Though the plan went unsuccess do to last moment merger of Samajbadi Party, Nepal and

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to form

it was highly covered by national medias. * Gaur incident : Minister Yadav was shown black flag in

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on 20 January 2021 by farmers and party cadets of

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led by

CK Raut Chandra Kant Raut ( ne, चन्द्र कान्त राउत), popularly known as CK Raut, is a Nepali Member of Parliament (MP), computer Missile engineer, former United States Defense Programmer, author, politician and activist. H ...

. After this incident, she said not to make a challenge else Raut and fellow farmers would be killed and that the incident of ''Gaur Rice mill'' would repeat when her party workers with

Upendra Yadav Upendra Yadav (; born 12 November 1960) is a Nepali people, Nepalese politician who has served as the chairman of the People's Socialist Party, Nepal since 2020. He served as the Deputy Prime Minister of Nepal under the government of KP Sharma Ol ...

present killed 28

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workers led by

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trying to organize program on same field of rice mill.

References

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Personal life

Political life

Controversies

Electoral history

2013 Constituent Assembly election

2008 Constituent Assembly election

1999 legislative elections

1994 legislative elections

References