Former Chief Minister of Bihar and Union Minister of Indian Government
NAME: Lalu Prasad Yadav
DATE OF BIRTH: 11th June, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH: Phulwaria, Bihar
PARENTS: Kundan Ray and Marachhiya Devi
SPOUSE: Rabri Devi
SIBLING: Gulab Chand Yadav
CHILDREN: Tejashwi Devi, Tej Pratap Yadav, Dr. Misa Bharti, Rohini Aharya, Chanda Singh, Ragini Yadav, Hema Yadav, Anushka Rao, Rajlaxmi Singh
EDUCATION: B.N. College, Patna Universiy
OCCUPATION: Politician
POLITICAL PARTY: Rastriya Janata Dal(RJD)
POSITIONS HELD:
- 1977: Elected to the 6th Lok Sabha at the age of 29.
- 1980–1989: Became member of the Bihar Legislative Assembly (two terms).
- 1989: Became a Leader of Opposition of Bihar Legislative Assembly, Chairman of Pustakalaya Committee, Convenor of Committee on Public Undertakings. Re-elected to the 9th Lok Sabha (2nd term).
- 1990–1995: Became a member of the Bihar Legislative Council.
- 1990–1997: Became Chief Minister of Bihar
- 1995–1998: Became member of the Bihar Legislative Assembly.
- 1997: Split from Janata Dal to form Rashtriya Janata Dal.
- 1998: Re-elected to 12th Lok Sabha (3rd term).
- 1998–1999: Became member of General Purposes Committee, Committee on Home Affairs and its Sub Committee on Swatantrata Sainik Samman Pension Scheme, Consultative Committee of Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.
- 2004: Re-elected to the 14th Lok Sabha (4th term). Appointed Cabinet Minister in the Ministry of Railways in UPA govt.
- 2009: Re-elected to the 15th Lok Sabha (5th term) and disqualified in 2013 subsequent to his conviction in the first fodder scam case.
- 2020: RJD declares Lalu as mahagathbandhan coordinator for Assembly polls.
BOOKS:
- Lalu Prasad has written his autobiography named Gopalganj to Raisina Raod.
- A writer named Neena Jha has written a book on Lalu Prasad named Lalu Prasad, India’s miracle.
- Book named Laloo Prasad Yadav: A Charismatic Leader was published in 1996.
- “The Making of Laloo Yadav, The Unmaking of Bihar”, updated and reprinted under the title “Subaltern Sahib: Bihar and the Making of Laloo Yadav”, is a book based on Lalu’s life by Sankarshan Thakur.
Lalu Prasad is an Indian politician from the state of Bihar. He is the president of the Rashtriya Janata Dal, previous chief minister of Bihar, previous UPA minister of railways and previous member of Parliament of the fifteenth Lok Sabha. He entered politics at Patna University as a student leader and was chosen as the youngest member of the Lok Sabha in 1977 as a Janata Party candidate at 29 years old. He then went on to become the chief minister of Bihar in 1990. From 1997 to 2005 his wife Rabri Devi managed as the Chief Minister of the state. His party came to power in 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election in coalition with Nitish Kumar of JD(U), yet Nitish Kumar dumped Prasad’s party from power in July 2017.
CONTROVERSIES
- Lalu Prasad was disqualified from Lok Sabha in 2013 subsequent to his conviction in the fodder scam case.
- Lalu, wife Rabri Devi, son Tejashwi Yadav and daughter Misa Bharti were booked for railway tender bribery scam, disproportionate illicit property and income tax evasion cases in 2017.
Fodder scam
The Fodder Scam was a corruption scandal that included the embezzlement of about ₹9.4 billion from the government treasury of Bihar. Among those embroiled in the theft and arrested were then Chief Minister of Bihar, Lalu Prasad Yadav, as also the former Chief Minister, Jagannath Mishra. The outrage prompted the end of Lalu’s reign as Chief Minister.
The theft spread over for a long time, and supposedly included various Bihar state’s managerial and elected officials over different organizations of the Indian National Congress and the Janata Dal parties. The corruption case included the creation of “vast herds of fictitious livestocks” for which grub, drugs and creature farming hardware was apparently procured. Although the outrage broke in 1996, the theft had been in progress, and expanded in size, for more than twenty years. Other than the span of the theft, the trick was and keeps on being canvassed in Indian media because of the broad nexus between bureaucrats, politicians and businessmen and the instance of the Mafia Raj that has infiltrated a few state-run economic sectors of the nation.
On 23 December, 2017, Lalu Prasad Yadav was sentenced by a special CBI court while Jagannath Misra was acquitted.
- Lalu, wife Rabri Devi, son Tejashwi Yadav and daughter Misa Bharti were booked for railway tender bribery scam, disproportionate illicit property and income tax evasion cases in 2017.
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