1. Ritlal Yadav or Ritlal Ray was born on 16 January 1972 and is a leader of RJD who won the Bihar Legislative Council election in July 2015 as an independent candidate.
11 Facts About Ritlal Yadav
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Ritlal Yadav was a former Member of Legislative Council, the post, to which he was elected in 2016.
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Ritlal Yadav was incarcerated in Beur Jail until August 2020.
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Ritlal Yadav defeated BJP's Asha Devi Sinha in the 2020 Bihar Assembly elections.
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Ritlal Yadav came to limelight in 2003 when Lalu Prasad Yadav was undertaking his Tel Pilawan lathi ghumawan Yatra to garner the support of Biharis for his party.
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Ritlal Yadav is named in several other serious cases like extortion and murder, which includes accusation in assassination of his rival Chunnu Singh at Chhath ghat in Neura and assassination of two railway contractors in a running train near Bakhtiyarpur.
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Ritlal Yadav came into contact with Lalu Prasad, when Ram Kripal Yadav defected from Rashtriya Janata Dal.
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Ritlal Yadav was denied party ticket from Pataliputra Lok Sabha constituency, due to the party's decision to nominate Misa Bharti from there.
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Ritlal Yadav later joined Rashtriya Janata Dal and Lalu Prasad made him the General Secretary of the party.
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In 2010, Ritlal Yadav surrendered in the court in connection with numerous charges lodged against him and contested the Bihar Assembly Elections of 2010 from the prison.
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Ritlal Yadav contested the elections to Bihar Legislative Council from within the jail in 2016 and became Member of Legislative Council.