Sitaram Yadav
Member of Bihar Legislative Assembly
In office
1990-1994
Member of Parliament 12th Lok Sabha
In office
1998-1999
Preceded byNawal Kishore Rai
Succeeded byNawal Kishore Rai
ConstituencySitamarhi
Member of Parliament 14th Lok Sabha
Assumed office
2004-2009
Preceded byNawal Kishore Rai
Succeeded byArjun Roy
ConstituencySitamarhi
Personal details
Born (1946-01-05) 5 January 1946
Sitamarhi, Bihar
Political partyBhartiya Janata Party
ResidenceWard 5, Dumra, Sitamarhi
As of 25 September, 2006
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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.[1]

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.

References

  1. ↑ "RJD ex-MP Sitaram Yadav, some other oppn leaders join BJP". Indian Expreess. Retrieved 18 July 2021.


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