Party Name : Bharatiya Janata Party
Constituency : Godda
State : Jharkhand
Member Experience : Elected to Loksabha 4 time
Last Loksabha Attended : 13
Father's Name : Late Shri Rajpati Prasad Yadav
Mother's Name :
Date of birth : 01 Jan 1925
Profession : Agriculturist Advocate, Social Worker, Teacher
Positions held :
1962-67 Member, Bihar Legislative AssemblyMember, Estimates Committee1968-74 Member, Rajya Sabha1968-71 President, Bharatiya Jana Sangh (B.J.S.), Bihar1972-77 Vice-President, Executive Committee, Akhil Bharatiya Jana Sangh1977 Elected to 6th Lok SabhaMember, Public Accounts Committee1977-79 Union Minister of State, Health and Family Welfare1979 Union Minister of State, Industry1981-84 President, Bharatiya Janata Party (B.J.P.) Bihar1981-88 Member, Executive and Election Committee, B.J.P.1982 Member, Rajya Sabha (2nd term)1983-84 Member, Committee on RulesMember, Hindi Advisory Committee, Ministries of Planning; Finance; External Affairs; Industry; and Law etc.Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Agriculture1984-88 Member, Committee on Official Language1996 Re-elected to 11th Lok Sabha (2nd term)1996-97 Member, Committee on RailwaysMember, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Agriculture1998 Re-elected to 12th Lok Sabha (3rd term)1998-99 Member, Committee on RailwaysMember, Committee on Official LanguageMember, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Agriculture1999 Re-elected to 13th Lok Sabha (4th term)1999-2000 Member, Committee on Railways2000-2001 Member, Library Committee2000 onwards Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Home Affairs
More Information :
Books Published
(i) Bihar State Cooperative Land Development-A Study; (ii) International Cooperative-A Study, a booklet on Family Welfare in South-East Asian Countries; (iii) Parivar Kalyan Anya Deshon Mein; and (iv) Ganga and Bihar Rajya Bhumi Vikas Bank (in Hindi); and writing articles for newspapers and magazines
Literary, Artistic & Scientific Accomplishments
Writing, essays and edited handwritten periodicals of agriculture, cooperatives silk; memoirs and articles on criticism; and has also set up a Library
Social And Cultural Activities
Engaged in the preservation and development of Indian culture and heritge; working for the welfare of Harijans, labour class; contributed towards dissemination of education and participated in cultural seminars; worked as Chairman and Director in the field of Cooperatives
Special Interests
Reading, writing and making continuous efforts for propagating the use of Hindi in Government offices
Favourite Pastime and Recreation
Gardening, horticulture, political, social and religous discussions; watching games on television and travelling
Sports and Clubs
Indoor games
Countries Visited
Widely travelled; as Union Minister of State for Health; attended International Conference on Health, in former U.S.S.R. wherein draft proposal, Health for All by 2000 A.D. was adopted; participated in Internation Cooperative Conference, Hamburg, Germany, 1969; attended International Conference on Joint Families, Paris
Other Information
President, (i) Bihar State Sona Chandi Vyavasayak Sangh; (ii) North-East Railways Indian Workers Union; (iii) From Mandal Samiti to Pradesh Samiti of Bharatiya Jana Sangh (B.J.S.), Bihar State, since its inception; (iv) All India Ministerial Staff Association of Railways, Jamalpur; Chairman, (i) Food Corportation, Bihar, (ii) Bihar State Land Development Bank, 1968 and later on Director of the same Bank; Director, (i) Bihar State Cooperative Bank, 1968; (ii) Bihar State Karya-Vikaraya Sangh, 1968; (iii) Bihar State Warehousing Corporation; (iv) Central Silk Board; (v) Bihar Rajya Sahkarita Sangh Federation; and (vi) Akhil Bharatiya Bhoomi Vikar Bank; Member, (i) Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (R.S.S.) since 1945; (ii) B.J.S., 1951-1977; (iii) National Railway Users Consultative Committee; (iv) Santhal Pahadion Ka Seva Mandal; and (v) National Committee on Celebration of Birth Centenary of Shri Maithili Sharan Gupta; participated in Freedom Struggle during 1942-46; participated in the movement started by Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Narayan and remained in prison for about one year and six months and was also imprisoned several times in 1949; resorted to Satyagraha in support of the demand for lifting ban on R.S.S. and imprisoned for six months; and also imprisoned during Emergency in 1975
