Sitaram Yadav (politician, born 1946)

Sitaram Yadav
Member of Bihar Legislative Assembly
In office 1990-1994
Member of Parliament 12th Lok Sabha
In office 1998-1999
Preceded by	Nawal Kishore Rai
Succeeded by	Nawal Kishore Rai
Constituency	Sitamarhi
Member of Parliament 14th Lok Sabha
Incumbent
Assumed office 2004-2009
Preceded by	Nawal Kishore Rai
Succeeded by	Arjun Roy
Constituency	Sitamarhi
Personal details
Born	(1946-01-05) 5 January 1946 Sitamarhi, Bihar
Political party	Bhartiya Janata Party
Residence	Ward 5, Dumra, Sitamarhi
As of 25 September, 2006 Source: [1]

Sitaram Yadav (born 5 January 1946) is an Indian politician who was a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Sitamarhi constituency of Bihar as a member of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) political party.

In January 2021, he joined Bhartiya Janata Party in presence of Bhupendra Yadav and Bihar state BJP president Sanjay Jaiswal.

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

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