Sharad Yadav

The Loktantrik Janata Dal (LJD) is a political party in India launched by Sharad Yadav in May 2018 after he parted ways from Janata Dal (United) due to its alliance with Bharatiya Janata Party in Bihar.

In 2017, he gave a speech comparing votes to daughter's honour and suggesting to prefer the former. He was one of the accused in the hawala scandal; however, the charges were dismissed by the Supreme Court of India.

A merger with Bahujan Mukti Party (founded on 6 December 2012) was proposed but was called off. and was set up as a political wing of All India Backward (SC, ST, OBC) and Minority Communities Employees' Federation (BAMCEF). V. L. Matang is the current President of the Bahujan Mukti Party.

Thereafter, he has been contesting from Madhepura Lok Sabha constituency in Bihar except in the by election caused by Lalu Yadav resigning his seat in 2004. He has won the Madhepura seat four times in 1991, 1996, 1999 and 2009. He has been defeated four times from Madhepura constituency - twice by Lalu Prasad Yadav in 1998 and 2004, by Pappu Yadav of RJD in 2014, and by JD-U's Dinesh Yadav in 2019 when Sharad Yadav contested on RJD's ticket.

Yadav was elected to Lok Sabha for the first time from Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh in 1974 in a by-poll. It was the time when JP Movement was at its peak and he was the first candidate chosen by Shri Jai Prakash Narayan for political arena on election symbol of Haldar Kisan. In 1977, he was re-elected from the same constituency. When Janata Party split in 1979, he sided with Charan Singh faction. When Rajiv Gandhi first entered Lok Sabha by winning by-poll from Amethi in 1981, Sharad Yadav was the losing candidate on Lok Dal ticket. He lost from Badaun in UP in 1984 on Lok Dal ticket under Charan Singh's leadership. He was elected from Badaun (Lok Sabha constituency) in the year 1989 as Janata Dal member.

Sharad Yadav (born 1 July 1947) is a politician from Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) party. He has been elected to Lok Sabha seven times and to Rajya Sabha thrice from JD(U). He was the first national president of Janata Dal (United) since its formation in 2003 till year 2016. He was disqualified from Rajya Sabha and removed from party leadership positions for engaging in anti-party activities.

Yadav was born on 1 July 1947 to Nand Kishore Yadav and Sumitra Yadav in Babai village in Hoshangabad district of Madhya Pradesh. He obtained his Bachelor of Science degree from Robertson College Jabalpur which branched into Government Science College, Jabalpur and Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering from Jabalpur Engineering College. He is an agriculturist, educationist and engineer by profession. Most of his political career is from Bihar state. He married Rekha Yadav on 15 February 1989, with whom he has a son and a daughter. His daughter Subhashini Raja Rao joined Indian National Congress just before 2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election and announced her plans to contest from Bihariganj seat. She contested the seat as a candidate of RJD and lost. Sharad Yadav's son Shantanu Bundela is a post graduate from University of London.