Sitaram Yadav (born 5 January 1946) is an Indian politician who was a member of the
14th Lok Sabha
The 14th Lok Sabha (17 May 2004 – 18 May 2009) was convened after the 2004 Indian general election held in four phases during 20 April – 10 May 2004, which led to the formation of first Manmohan Singh ministry (2004–2009). Indian Nationa ...
of
India. He represented the
Sitamarhi constituency of
Bihar as a member of the
Rashtriya Janata Dal
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The party's support base has tradit ...
(RJD) political party.
In January 2021, he joined
Bhartiya Janata Party
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in presence of
Bhupendra Yadav
Bhupendra Singh Yadav (born 2 December 1959) is the Director General of Police of Rajasthan in the Indian Police Service. Yadav is an IPS officer of the 1986 "batch". He has been awarded the Police Medal and President's Police Medal
The Preside ...
and Bihar state BJP president
Sanjay Jaiswal
Sanjay Jaiswal (born 29 November 1965) is an Indian politician who has represented Paschim Champaran constituency of Bihar since 2009 as a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), winning the seat in 2009, 2014, and 2019. He served as the p ...
.
Early life
Yadav was born in
Sitamarhi,
Bihar, India to Raghunandan Gope and Sundarwati Devi. He is the first in a family of five sons. He received bachelor's degrees in Law and Education from
Bihar University,
Muzaffarpur. After graduation, he found employment as a teacher in a Madhubani middle school.
Political career
Early in his political career, Yadav served as Mukhiya of the Nayatol Panchayat and as Block Parmukh of Nanpur block.
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.
He was elected to the Lok Sabha from the Sitamarhi constituency in Bihar as a candidate of RJD in 1998.
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.
He was re-elected to Lok Sabha from the Sitamarhi constituency as a candidate of RJD in 2004.
External links
Home Page on the Parliament of India's Website
References
1946 births
Living people
People from Bihar
India MPs 2004–2009
Rashtriya Janata Dal politicians
India MPs 1998–1999
Lok Sabha members from Bihar
People from Sitamarhi district
United Progressive Alliance candidates in the 2014 Indian general election
Janata Dal politicians
Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Bihar
Lok Dal politicians
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