Shivpal Singh Yadav

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Shivpal Singh Yadav
Member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Assumed office
17 October 1996
Preceded byMulayam Singh Yadav
ConstituencyJaswantnagar
Cabinet Minister in Uttar Pradesh Government
In office
15 March 2012 – 24 October 2016
In office
6 September 2003[1] – 11 May 2007
State president, SP in Uttar Pradesh
In office
13 September 2016 – 1 January 2017
Preceded byAkhilesh Yadav
Succeeded byNaresh Uttam Patel
In office
6 January 2009 – 4 June 2009[2]
Preceded byRam Sharan Das
Succeeded byAkhilesh Yadav
Uttar Pradesh state Incharge in Samajwadi Party
In office
12 April 2016[3] – 13 September 2016
Preceded byPosition opened
Succeeded byPosition closed
Leader of the Opposition, Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
In office
26 May 2009 – 9 March 2012
Preceded byMulayam Singh Yadav
Succeeded bySwami Prasad Maurya
President of Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohiya)
In office
28 August 2018 – 10 December 2022
Preceded byposition established
Succeeded byposition abolished
Personal details
Born (1955-02-16) 16 February 1955 (age 69)
Saifai, Uttar Pradesh, India
Political party Samajwadi Party (until 2017;2022-present)
Other political
affiliations
Independent (2017-2018), Samajwadi Secular Morcha (2018) and Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohiya) (2018-2022)
Spouse
Sarla Yadav
(m. 1981)
RelationsMulayam Singh Yadav (brother)
Ram Gopal Yadav (cousin)
Akhilesh Yadav (nephew)
Dharmendra Yadav (nephew)
Abhishek Yadav (nephew)
Tej Pratap Singh Yadav (grand-nephew)
Aditya Yadav (son)
Children2 (1 son & 1 daughter)
Parents
  • Sughar Singh Yadav (father)
  • Murti Devi (mother)
Residence(s)Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
Alma materK.K. P.G. College, Etawah
Kanpur University (B.A., 1976),
Lucknow Christian College
University of Lucknow (B.P.Ed., 1977)[4]

Shivpal Singh Yadav (born 16 February 1955) is a politician and educationist from Uttar Pradesh, India. He was born in Saifai village, Etawah district, and is a younger brother of Samajwadi Party leader late Mulayam Singh Yadav and uncle of the former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Akhilesh Yadav. He is a Member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly, representing the Jaswantnagar seat in Etawah district, from 1996 till now. He is also the National General Secretary of Samajwadi Party and was appointed on 29 January 2023.

In 2018 he founded his own party named Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohiya), which was merged into Samajwadi Party in 2022.[5]

Early life and education

Shivpal Singh Yadav was born in Saifai village, Etawah district in 1955 to Sughar Singh Yadav and Murti Devi. He has studied in Kanpur University's K.K. P.G. College, Etawah and University of Lucknow's Lucknow Christian College and earned BA (1976) and BPEd (1977) degrees respectively.

Family

Shivpal is the youngest among 5 brothers. Ratan Singh Yadav, Mulayam Singh Yadav, Abhay Ram Yadav and Rajpal Singh Yadav are his elder brothers. He has 1 sister Kamla Devi Yadav.

Rajya Sabha MP Ram Gopal Yadav and his sister Geeta Yadav are his cousins.

Career

Shivpal Singh Yadav is the MLA from the Jaswantnagar constituency since 1996.

Yadav was the leader of Opposition in Uttar Pradesh Assembly since 2007 during the Mayawati regime.[6]

Positions held

Shivpal Singh Yadav has served 6 times as MLA. He had lost the 17th Lok Sabha election from Firozabad in 2019.

# From To Position Party
1. 1996 2002 MLA (1st term) from Jaswantnagar SP
2. 2002 2007 MLA (2nd term) from Jaswantnagar SP
3. 2007 2012 MLA (3rd term) from Jaswantnagar SP
4. 2012 2017 MLA (4th term) from Jaswantnagar SP
5. 2017 2022 MLA (5th term) from Jaswantnagar SP
6. 2022 Present MLA (6th term) from Jaswantnagar SP

Personal life

Shivpal Singh Yadav is married to Mrs. Sarla Yadav since 1981 and they have a son Aditya Yadav and daughter Dr. Anubha Yadav. Anubha Yadav is married to Ajay Yadav who is an IAS officer of 2010 batch and Tamil Nadu cadre.[7][8]

Educational organizations

He established schools named S.S. Memorial Senior Secondary Public School, Saifai and Sughar Singh Memorial Shiksha Niketan Inter College, Saifai in 1990s, in the memory of his father. He is manager of colleges named Chaudhary Charan Singh Post Graduate College and Chaudhary Charan Singh College of Law, both colleges established by his elder brother Mulayam Singh Yadav. He also established a teachers' training college named S.S. Memorial Educational Academy, Saifai in 2012, a degree college named S.S. Memorial Mahavidyalaya, Takha in 2013 and a pharmacy diploma college named S.S. Memorial College of Pharmacy, Saifai in 2023. As of September 2023, he is manager of 6 schools and 5 colleges, which include one CBSE Board school, 5 State Board schools, 2 multidisciplinary (degree/post graduate) colleges, one law college, one teachers' training college and one pharmacy diploma college.

References

  1. ^ "मुलायम मंत्रिमंडल का विस्तार | BBC Hindi". Archived from the original on 19 September 2016. Retrieved 21 August 2016.
  2. ^ "यूपी: अखिलेश को सपा की कमान". 4 June 2009.
  3. ^ "शिवपाल का कद बढ़ा, बने सपा के यूपी प्रभारी". News18 Hindi.
  4. ^ "Shivpal Singh Yadav(Samajwadi Party(SP)):Constituency- JASWANTNAGAR(ETAWAH) - Affidavit Information of Candidate".
  5. ^ "State elections 2007 result". Retrieved 5 March 2012.
  6. ^ "Leader of Opposition, UP Assembly". Retrieved 5 March 2012.
  7. ^ "अपने IAS दामाद की पोस्टिंग के लिए शिवपाल ने लिखी पीएम को चिट्ठी, नियमों में ढील देकर केंद्र ने दिया डेप्युटेशन". NDTV India. 26 July 2016.
  8. ^ "आईएएस दामाद के लिए शिवपाल ने लिखी मोदी को चिट्ठी, पीएम ने तोड़ा नियम". Amar Ujala. 27 July 2016.