Vinayak Prasad Yadav (died 7 January 2002) was an Indian politician. He was a Member of Parliament, representing Saharsa, Bihar, in the Lok Sabha, the

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, as a member of the Janata Party.

Life

Vinayak Prasad Yadav was jailed several times for his activities as a part of the

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in 1942. He was elected a member of the Legislative Assembly of Bihar for the periods 1967-1968 and 1972–1974, as well as being elected in 1985 and 1990. He served for some time as a minister in the Government of Bihar. Following the killing of

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by police at

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in 1974 Yadav, who was then a member of the

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, resigned from the Bihar Legislative Assembly in protest. Yadav also served one term as a Member of Parliament, being elected to the

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from the Saharsa constituency in Bihar for the period 1977 to 1979. He was among 27 MPs who left the Janata Party parliamentary group in July 1979 in protest at that party's acceptance of associates who were involved with the right-wing Hindutva organisation, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. All those among the 27 who came from Bihar were supporters of

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. Outside politics, Yadav was a lawyer. He died, aged 74, at Kaushalipatti, Bihar on 7 January 2002.

References

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