Sangram Yadav is an Indian politician. He served as a member of 16th and 17th Legislative Assembly,

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. He represents the

Atraulia Atraulia is a town and a Nagar Panchayat in the Azamgarh district within the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Geography Atraulia has an average elevation of 81 metres (265 feet). The nearest river is Ghagra, also known as the Saryu ri ...

constituency in

Azamgarh Azamgarh is a city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is the headquarters of Azamgarh division, which consists of Ballia, Mau and Azamgarh districts. Azamgarh is situated on the bank of Tamsa River (Tons). It is located east of the st ...

district of

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, and is a member of the

Samajwadi Party The Samajwadi Party ( SP; translation: ''Socialist Party'', founded 4 October 1992) is a Socialism, socialist political party in India, headquartered in New Delhi but mainly based in Uttar Pradesh, with significant presence in other states as w ...

Early life

Yadav was born on 3 October 1971 in Senpur,

to his father

Balram Yadav Balram Yadav is a leader of the Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh. On 10 June 2016, he was re-elected to the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council. He has four children including Sangram Yadav, also a politician of Samajwadi party. He is one of th ...

(5 time MLA from

). He married Sandhya Yadav in 2005 and they had two sons. He earned a

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degree in 1994, an

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in 1997, and a PhD in 2005 from

University of Allahabad , mottoeng = "As Many Branches So Many Trees" , established = , type = Public , chancellor = Ashish Chauhan , vice_chancellor = Sangita Srivastava , head_label ...

Political career

In 2012, he was elected by Atraulia constituency as a member of

. He served as MLA for two consecutive terms. In his first term 16th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh (2012) elections he defeated

Bahujan Samaj Party The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) is a national level political party in India that was formed to represent Bahujans (literally means "community in majority"), referring to Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and Other Backward Classes (OBC), alon ...

candidate, Surendra Prasad Mishra, by a margin of 43,620 votes. In his second term

17th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh The Seventeenth Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh (Seventeenth Vidhan Sabha of Uttar Pradesh) was constituted on 19 March 2017 as a result of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, 2017 held between 11 February to 8 March 2017. The L ...

(2017), elections he defeated

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candidate Kanhaiya Lal Nishad by a margin of 2,467 votes.

References

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