Ram Kripal Yadav

Ramkripal

Ram Kripal Yadav

Minister of Drinking Water and Sanitation
Incumbent
Assumed office 9 November 2014
Prime Minister	Narendra Modi
Preceded by	Nitin Gadkari
Member of the India Parliament for Pataliputra
Incumbent
Assumed office 16 May 2009
Preceded by	Ranjan Prasad Yadav
Personal details
Born	(1957-10-12) 12 October 1957 Patna, Bihar
Political party	Bhartiya Janta Party
Spouse(s)	Kiran Devi
Children	2 sons and 1 daughter
Residence	Patna
Education	B.A.(Hons.), LL.B. Educated at Magadh University
Website	www.ramkripalyadav.in

Ram Kripal Yadav (born 12 October 1957) is a member of the 16th Lok Sabha of India from the Pataliputra parliamentary constituency, Central Minister of Drinking Water and Sanitation and former close aide of Indian politician Lalu Prasad Yadav.

He represented the Patna Sahib constituency of Bihar in the 14th General Elections 2004 by defeating C. P. Thakur of Bhartiya Janta Party.

He was a member of the Rashtriya Janata Dal political party. He did not contest the 15th General elections in 2009 as the RJD supremo Lalu Yadav himself contested from that constituency. In March 2014 Ramkripal Yadav resigned from his party post.^[1]

Yadav, who wanted to contest from Pataliputra seat. in March he joined BJP and in 2014, he won the Patliputra Lok Sabha seat defeating his niece and Lalu Yadav's daughter Misa Bharti.^[2]^[3]

Offices held

1985-1986 Deputy Mayor, Patna Municipal Corporation
1992-1993 Member, Bihar Legislative Council
1993-1996 Member, Tenth Lok Sabha (elected in bye election)
1996-1997 Member, Eleventh Lok Sabha
2004-2009 Member, Fourteenth Lok Sabha
2010 Elected to Rajya Sabha
2010- Member, Committee on Defence
2010- Member, Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Coal and Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation
Chairman, Dr. Ambedkar Institute of Sports and Culture, Bihar
1998-2005 Chairman, Bihar Dharmik Nayas, Bihar
2014 - Minister of Drinking Water and Sanitation

References

↑ "Sulking Ram Kripal Yadav quits RJD posts after Lalu snubs him denying key Pataliputra seat". Times of India. 8 March 2014.
↑ "LS polls: BJP fields Ram Kripal Yadav against Lalu's daughter Misa". Hindustan Times. 13 March 2014.
↑ http://indianexpress.com/article/india/politics/election-live-2014-march-13/

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Members of the 16th Lok Sabha from Bihar State

15th LS Members 17th LS Members

GE 2014	Tasleem Uddin Raj Kumar Singh Sushil Kumar Singh Jay Prakash Narayan Yadav Bhola Singh Shailesh Kumar Mandal Ashwini Kumar Choubey Kirti Azad Hari Manjhi Janak Ram Ram Vilas Paswan Arun Kumar Chirag Paswan Virendra Kumar Choudhary Upendra Kushwaha Tariq Anwar Mehboob Ali Kaiser Moh Asrarul Huq Pappu Yadav Hukmdev Narayan Yadav Janardan Singh Sigriwal Veena Devi Ajay Nishad Kaushlendra Kumar Giriraj Singh Sanjay Jaiswal Ram Kripal Yadav Shatrughan Sinha Santosh Kumar Radha Mohan Singh Ram Chandra Paswan Rajiv Pratap Rudy Chhedi Paswan Rama Devi Ram Kumar Sharma Om Prakash Yadav Ranjeet Ranjan Nityanand Rai Rama Kishor Singh Satish Chandra Dubey

Members of the 16th Lok Sabha from States: AP BH CT GA GJ HR HP JK JH KL KA MP MH OR PB RJ TN TG UP UT WB Northeast: AR AS MN ML MZ NL SK TR Union Territories: AN CH DN DD LD DL PY

Bharatiya Janata Party

Presidents	Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1980–86) Lal Krishna Advani (1986–91) Murli Manohar Joshi (1991–93) Lal Krishna Advani (1993–98) Kushabhau Thakre (1998–2000) Bangaru Laxman (2000–01) Jana Krishnamurthi (2001–02) Venkaiah Naidu (2002–04) Lal Krishna Advani (2004–06) Rajnath Singh (2006–09) Nitin Gadkari (2009–13) Rajnath Singh (2013–14) Amit Shah (2014–present)

Current Vice Presidents	B. S. Yeddyurappa Bandaru Dattatreya Om Prakash Mathur Parsottambhai Rupala Raghubar Das Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi Satyapal Singh Malik Prabhat Jha Kiran Maheshwari Dinesh Sharma Renu Devi Vinay Sahasrabuddhe

Other prominent leaders	Sushma Swaraj Arun Jaitley Yashwant Sinha Subramanian Swamy Ravi Shankar Prasad Pramod Mahajan Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi

Prime Ministers	Atal Bihari Vajpayee Narendra Modi

Current Chief ministers	Anandiben Patel Vasundhara Raje Shivraj Singh Chouhan Raman Singh Laxmikant Parsekar Manohar Lal Khattar Devendra Fadnavis Raghubar Das

Spokespersons	Syed Shahnawaz Hussain M. J. Akbar Meenakshi Lekhi Sudhanshu Trivedi Bizay Sonkar Shastri Nalin Kohli Sambit Patra Anil Baluni GVL Narsimha Rao Gopal Krishna Agarwal

General Secretaries	P. Muralidhar Rao Kailash Vijayvargiya Muralidhar Rao Ram Madhav Saroj Pandey Bhupender Yadav Anil Jain Ram Lal Arun Singh

Morcha	Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha BJP Mahila Morcha BJP SC Morcha BJP ST Morcha BJP OBC Morcha BJP Minority Morcha BJP Kisan Morcha

Related organisations	Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh Bharatiya Jana Sangh Janata Party Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh Bharatiya Kisan Sangh

Others	Hindutva Integral humanism

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