Roop Nath Singh Yadav (

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:रूप नाथ सिंह यादव) was an

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and

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, belongs to

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representing Pratapgarh Parliamentary Constituency of

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. He was a

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freedom fighter who took an active part in the Quit

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and was imprisoned.

Life

Roop Nath Singh Yadav left practice of Law after he was elected to the legislative assembly of

and inducted in the council of minister headed by Late

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and was a

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for two terms and a member of Lok Sabha for one term. Roop Nath Singh Yadav,

(

) in which capacity he moved the private member Bill. The Indian Social Disparity Removal Bill, 1979 The discussion on the Bill in the House led to Constitution of the All India Backward Class Commission headed by Late

B.P. Mandal Babu Bindheshwari Prasad Mandal (25 August 1918 – 13 April 1982) was the chief of the Murho Estate and an Indian politician who chaired the Mandal Commission. Mandal came from a rich Yadav landlord family from Madhepura in Northern Bihar. H ...

of which Roop Nath Singh Yadav was a co-opted Member for Uttar Pradesh. Joined

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(I) in 1985–86 in presence of the then Prime Minister of India,

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and was DCC Chief

Allahabad Allahabad (), officially known as Prayagraj, also known as Ilahabad, is a metropolis in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.The other five cities were: Agra, Kanpur (Cawnpore), Lucknow, Meerut, and Varanasi (Benares). It is the administrat ...

. His younger brother Babu Athairam Yadav was also elected three times as member of legislative assembly from Handiya Allahabad constituency.

Political career

Roop Nath Singh Yadav was a

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of Sixth Lok Sabha from 1977 to 1979 representing Pratapgarh Parliamentary Constituency of Uttar Pradesh. Earlier, Shri Yadav was a member of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly and served his State as Deputy Minister for Agriculture and Cabinet Minister for Local Self Government during 1967–70. An active parliamentarian, Yadav was a member of Committee on Absence of Members from the Sittings of the House and Joint Committee on Salaries and Allowances of Members of Parliament. A veteran freedom fighter, Yadav took part in the

Quit India Movement The Quit India Movement, also known as the August Kranti Movement, was a movement launched at the Bombay session of the All India Congress Committee by Mahatma Gandhi on 8th August 1942, during World War II, demanding an end to British rule in ...

and suffered imprisonment. A keen social and political worker, Shri Yadav worked relentlessly for the uplift of the downtrodden and weaker sections of the society. Roop Nath Singh Yadav died on 13 February 2001 at Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh at the age of 83.

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Lok Sabha Election 1991 - Uttar PradeshRoop Nath Singh Yadav
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Life

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