Vijay Bahadur Yadav (born 14 September 1969) is an Indian politician and a member in 15th and

16th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh The Sixteenth Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh (a.k.a. Sixteenth Vidhan Sabha of Uttar Pradesh) was constituted on 15 March 2012 as a result of 2012 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election held between 8 Feb to 3 March 2012. The Sixtee ...

of India. Since 2012, he represents

Gorakhpur Rural (Assembly constituency) Gorakhpur Rural is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Gorakhpur Rural in the Gorakhpur district of Uttar Pradesh, India. It is one of five assembly constituencies in the Gorakhpur Lok Sabha constituen ...

as a member of

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 ...

. Earlier he represented Maniram (Vidhan Sabha constituency) in 2007–2012 as Bharatiya Janata Party. Yadav in his 10-year tenure has faced no corruption charges and has been fairly active in the legislative assembly, though reports say that his assets doubled in 5 years, also he has 8 criminal cases against him. He has been credited with allotment of university status to

Madan Mohan Malaviya University of Technology Madan Mohan Malaviya University of Technology (MMMUT) is a university in Gorakhpur. It was established in 2013 by upgrading Madan Mohan Malaviya Engineering College (MMMEC) into a university. . History MMMUT has its roots with Madan Mohan M ...

and has also raised the issue of encephalitis continuously and has secured funds for construction of a new ward in Gorakhpur Medical College.

Personal life

Vijay Bahadur Yadav was born to Rama Shankar Yadav on 14 September 1969 in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh. He studied till intermediate. Vijay B Yadav married Rambha Devi on 7 December 1989, with whom he has two sons and a daughter. He is a businessman by profession.

Political career

* 2007:Elected as member of Legislative Assembly from Maniram, Gorakhpur. * 2012:Elected as member of legislative Assembly from Gorakhpur Rural. * 2017:Contested election from

Gorakpur Gorakhpur is a village in Fatehabad district of Haryana Haryana (; ) is an Indian state located in the northern part of the country. It was carved out of the former state of East Punjab on 1 Nov 1966 on a linguistic basis. It is ranked 21s ...

Rural, lost by a margin of 4,410 votes. Yadav started his political journey with Bharatiya Janata Party in 2007, even though he is said to have never aligned with BJP's ideology but on request of

Mahant Avaidyanath Mahant Avaidyanath (born Kripal Singh Bisht, 28 May 1921 – 12 September 2014) was an Indian politician and Hindu preacher. He was the Mahant (chief priest) of Gorakhnath Temple, succeeding his guru Digvijay Nath. He was also a politician of t ...

he agreed to contest on Bharatiya Janata Party ticket. Despite the stiff opposition of Yogi Adityanath in the 2012 election, BJP gave him the ticket, due to which Yogi Adityanath pitted his party Hindu Yuva Vahini candidate against him. However he won the election and emerged as a strong regional leader of Purvanchal. During this period his closeness to Akhilesh Yadav kept growing and in controversial Rajya Sabha elections he voted for

candidate against BJP. He said he was impressed by the policy making of then chief minister, he resolutely stated "I voted on the basis of development done by the Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and I am ready to make any sacrifice". After cross voting in Rajya Sabha election Bhartiya Janata Party suspended him from party. In 2016, he left Bhartiya Janta Party and joined

on his ideological difference.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Yadav, Vijay Bahadur 1969 births Living people People from Gorakhpur Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh MLAs 2007–2012 21st-century Indian politicians Samajwadi Party politicians from Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh MLAs 2012–2017