Ram Naresh Yadav (1 July 1928 – 22 November 2016) was an Indian politician who was Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh from 1977 to 1979. He was from
Janata Party
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; later he joined the
Congress
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. He also served as
Governor of Madhya Pradesh
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Governors of Madhya Pradesh
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from 26 August 2011 to 7 September 2016.
Personal life
He was born on 1 July 1928 at Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh. He belonged to a middle-class family. His father was a teacher. Ram Naresh Yadav was a successful lawyer in Azamgarh court. He died on 22 November 2016 in Lucknow.
Political career
Ram Naresh Yadav was interested in social work and was close to socialist leader
Raj Narain
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Lok Sabha
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in 1977 from Azamgarh constituency. He was considered a modest and a low-profile politician.
He became Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh on 23 June 1977, and remained on the post till 28 February 1979. On 25 February 1979, he failed to secure a
vote of confidence
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. Banarsi Das was elected in his place and became Chief Minister.
In 2004 general elections, he contested from Azamgarh constituency on Indian National Congress ticket, but lost to Bahujan Samaj Party's Ramakant Yadav. On 26 August 2011, he was appointed Governor of Madhya Pradesh by the
President of India
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,
Pratibha Patil
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On February 24, 2015, Madhya Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) filed an FIR against Yadav for his alleged role in the multi-crore Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board (MPPEB) scam (
Vyapam scam
The Vyapam scam was an entrance examination, admission and recruitment scam. It was functional since the 1990s and was finally unearthed in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh in 2013.
The scam involved politicians, senior and junior officials ...
). He was charged with rigging the forest guard recruitment examination, conducted by Vyapam, and booked under the Information Technology Act and the Prevention of Corruption Act. The FIR was registered after an MP High Court hearing where Chief Justice A M Khanvilkar and Justice
Alok Aradhe
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said STF can freely proceed against any "high dignitary". Yadav moved the high court citing constitutional immunity, which subsequently in April asked STF to "observe complete protocol", the Governor being the Head of the State. The head of the special investigative team (SIT) probing the scam said that action will be taken after his retirement in September, 2016. Meanwhile, a group of lawyers filed a petition in
Supreme Court of India
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, seeking removal of Yadav and recording his statement in the case. A bench comprising Chief Justice of India
H. L. Dattu
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and Justices
Arun Kumar Mishra
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and
Amitava Roy
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Lucknow
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