11 Facts About Ritlal Yadav

Ritlal Yadav or Ritlal Ray is a leader of RJD who won the Bihar Legislative Council election in July 2015 as an independent candidate.

Ritlal Yadav was a former Member of Legislative Council, the post, to which he was elected in 2016.

Ritlal Yadav was incarcerated in Beur Jail until August 2020.

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.

Ritlal Yadav is named in several other serious cases like extortion and murder.

Ritlal Yadav wields considerable influence on all railway tenders of Danapur division.

Ritlal Yadav is prime accused in assassination of two railway contractors in a running train near Bakhtiyarpur.

Ritlal Yadav came into contact with Lalu Prasad when one of his associates Ram Kripal Ritlal Yadav defected from him and was to contest against his daughter Misa Bharti.

Ritlal Yadav later joined Rashtriya Janata Dal and Lalu Prasad made him the General Secretary of the party.

In 2010 Ritlal Yadav surrendered in the court for the numerous charges which were lodged against him and contested the Bihar Assembly Elections of 2010 from the prison but he lost it.

Ritlal Yadav contested the elections to Bihar Legislative Council from within the jail in 2016 and became Member of Legislative Council.