31 Facts About Sharad Yadav

Sharad Yadav was an Indian politician from the Rashtriya Janata Dal party.

Sharad Yadav was elected to the Lok Sabha seven times and to the Rajya Sabha four times from JD.

Sharad Yadav was the first national president of Janata Dal, serving from its formation in 2003 until 2016.

Sharad Yadav was disqualified from the Rajya Sabha in 2017 and removed from party leadership positions for engaging in anti-party activities.

Sharad Yadav obtained his Bachelor of Science degree from Robertson College Jabalpur which branched into Government Science College, Jabalpur.

Sharad Yadav earned a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering from Jabalpur Engineering College, where he was a gold medalist.

Sharad Yadav was active in the Bihar Student Movement and was greatly influenced by the socialist ideas of Jayaprakash Narayan and Ram Manohar Lohia.

Sharad Yadav was jailed by the Jabalpur police in 1972 and 1975 due to his involvement with the student movement.

Sharad Yadav was elected to the Lok Sabha for the first time at the age of 27 from Jabalpur in 1974 in a by-poll after the death of incumbent Seth Govind Das.

Sharad Yadav became the President of Yuva Lok Dal in 1978.

When Rajiv Gandhi first entered the Lok Sabha by winning a by-poll from Amethi in 1981, Sharad Yadav was the losing candidate for Lok Dal.

Sharad Yadav contested the 1984 general election as a Lok Dal candidate from Badaun, which he lost against Saleem Iqbal Shervani of Congress.

Sharad Yadav was elected as a Member of Parliament from Rajya Sabha for the first time in 1986.

Sharad Yadav won the Badaun seat in the 1989 general election under the Janata Dal party, with INC's Ram Naresh Sharad Yadav being the runner-up.

Sharad Yadav obtained his first Central government cabinet position as Minister of Textiles in the V P Singh ministry Sharad Yadav was one of the most powerful members of the cabinet and exerted pressure on V P Singh to implement the Mandal Commission report on reservations for OBCs in 1990, which led to widespread protests and brought Caste politics to the forefront.

Sharad Yadav won Madhepura seat for Janata Dal in the 1991 general election, with the Jharkhand Party's Anand Mohan finishing in second place.

Sharad Yadav retained the seat in 1996 general election defeating the Samata Party's Anand Mandal.

Gujral government, he lost the Madhepura seat to Lalu Prasad Sharad Yadav, who had split from Janata Dal to form Rashtriya Janata Dal.

Sharad Yadav contested the 1999 general election from Madhepura against Lalu Prasad again and won this time.

Deve Gowda split from Janata Dal to form Janata Dal ; the remainder of the party led by Sharad Yadav would come to be called as Janata Dal.

Sharad Yadav's faction merged with Lok Shakti and Samata Party to officially become Janata Dal in 2003.

Sharad Yadav became the first president of JDU and remained in the position till 2016.

Sharad Yadav failed to retain the seat in the 2014 general election and lost to RJD's Pappu Yadav.

Sharad Yadav won the Madhepura Lok Sabha seat a total of four times; in 1991,1996,1999 and 2009.

Sharad Yadav was one of the accused in the hawala scandal; however, the charges were dismissed by the Supreme Court of India.

Sharad Yadav founded the Loktantrik Janata Dal in May 2018, after disassociating himself from the Nitish Kumar-led Janata Dal in the wake of its alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party in Bihar.

Sharad Yadav married Rekha on 15 February 1989, with whom he has a son and a daughter.

Sharad Yadav contested the seat as a candidate of RJD and lost.

Sharad Yadav's son Shantanu Bundela is a post graduate from University of London.

Sharad Yadav died on 12 January 2023 in Gurugram, aged 75.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi condoled the death of Sharad Yadav and said that he did works for the welfare of common people.