In short: between the headline Yadavs (Rajpal, Suryakumar, Elvish, Tejashwi, Lalu) sits a long tail of second-tier Yadav names whose searches spike with a result, a verdict, a death or a squad announcement. This page is a verified who-is-who for that tail: who each person is, which party or state they belong to, and what actually happened in the news event that sent people searching. Every entry was checked against encyclopaedic records and dated news reports on 21 September 2026; contested points are flagged as contested. For the big names we keep full, separately sourced biographies, start with Tejashwi Yadav or the Yadav personalities guide, and for community-level questions see the Yadav caste guide.
How to use this page
Each entry answers the exact questions searched: kaun hai (who is), which party, kaha ka hai (which state), kaise/why (what happened). Where a name is a common misspelling of someone else (as "Tejasvi Yadav" almost always is) we route you to the right person instead of inventing a separate profile. Where the record itself is disputed (as in the Mokama death case) we set out the official claims and the family's contest side by side, and leave the choice to the reader.
Pappu Yadav: the MP whose every party switch trends
"Pappu Yadav" is the public name of Rajesh Ranjan, born 24 December 1967 in Khurda, Bihar. He is the classic bahubali-to-parliament arc: a lower-caste leader from Bhojpur who built a following among the most marginalised, was elected to the Lok Sabha repeatedly (as independent and on RJD, Samajwadi Party and BSP tickets among others), founded his own Jan Adhikar Party in 2015, and since 2024 has been a Member of Parliament in the Indian National Congress, which fielded and elected him from the Karakat seat in his home region of Bihar. Searches like "pappu yadav which party" spike with every realignment because his career is a history of party switches; the correct current answer is Congress. He has faced serious criminal cases and "Y"-category security threats spanning decades, which is documented in his Wikipedia profile.
The other 2025 spike is "pappu yadav ka beta". His son Sarthak Ranjan became a talking point when he entered the Delhi Premier League, and columns debated whether a politician's son playing city cricket was evidence of nepotism in Indian cricket's feeder structure. Sarthak is a genuine club cricketer; the argument was about access more than about talent.
Mohan Yadav: the Chief Minister people search as "Mohan Yadav ji"
Yes, a Yadav is currently a sitting Chief Minister in India. Mohan Yadav, born 25 March 1965 in Ujjain, is a Bharatiya Janata Party leader who has represented Ujjain South in the Madhya Pradesh assembly since 2013 and served as the state's Higher Education minister. On 13 December 2023, he was sworn in as Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, succeeding Shivraj Singh Chouhan after the BJP retained the state that year. He holds a doctorate and counts among the party's organisational regulars; he is not known as a firebrand. Queries such as "mohan yadav cm kab bane" (when did he become CM) resolve to that 13 December 2023 date, and "kahan ke mukhyamantri" resolves to Madhya Pradesh. Bihar and Chhattisgarh are frequent wrong answers, the confusion coming from the Yadav political belt south of UP.
Radha Yadav: the women's cricketer
"Radha yadav which state" searches all point to Radha Yadav (born 21 April 2000, Mumbai), the Indian women's cricketer: a right-hand bat, slow left-arm orthodox all-rounder who has played domestic cricket for Mumbai, Baroda and West Zone, represented India, and featured in the Women's Premier League since its 2023 debut. She is Maharashtrian-born and Maharashtra-trained, which answers the recurring "which state" question. Her personal life (including marriage searches) is not part of the public record, and we do not speculate about it. Her playing record is maintained at ESPNcricinfo and ICC profiles.
"Tejasvi Yadav": a spelling, not a second politician
Searches for "tejasvi yadav" ask kitne voton se jite (what margin), jite ya hare (won or lost) and kahan se chunav (which seat); they are overwhelmingly misspellings of Tejashwi Yadav, the RJD president and Bihar Deputy Chief Minister. There is no distinct national figure named Tejasvi Yadav that these queries plausibly target. The direct answers: in the 2024 Lok Sabha election Tejashwi Yadav won from Madhepura in Bihar and returned to the Lok Sabha, and he has continued to lead the RJD's Bihar campaigns since. All the detail on margin, seat and result is documented, source by source, in his verified Tejashwi Yadav profile; treat any "Tejasvi Yadav" biography site as a duplicate of that same person.
Bhupender Yadav: the Union Environment Minister, and not the Nepali Upendra
"Bhupendra/Bhupender yadav which minister, which ministry, which party" all resolve to the same person: Bhupender Yadav (born 30 June 1969), BJP MP from Mehrauli, Delhi, serving since June 2024 as the Union Cabinet Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change. He previously held the Labour and Employment and Skills portfolios as minister of state. One disambiguation the data demands: the Nepali politician Upendra Yadav (born 12 November 1960, JSP chair, twice Deputy Prime Minister of Nepal) is a different person entirely. Searches that transliterate the Nepali name land near the Indian minister's, but the two never overlap.
Dularchand Yadav: the Mokama death that became an election-time murder case
The spike of late October and November 2025 around Dularchand Yadav, a man of about 74 and a Jan Suraaj Party worker from Bihar with an earlier career spanning the CPI and Lalu-associated politics, is one of the darkest entries here. During the charged 2025 Bihar election campaign in Mokama, he died after a confrontation at or around campaign activity. Reports described him being injured or assaulted and collapsing, and the post-mortem cited cardio-respiratory failure, a finding his family and Jan Suraaj contested as a shooting or killing (The Hindu's report). Police arrested JD(U) candidate and ex-MLA Anant Singh and two others in connection with his death in early November 2025; Anant Singh was later granted bail by the Patna High Court. The case remains sub-judice: the honest summary is that a 74-year-old campaigner died during the Mokama contest, three were arrested, and the precise cause (assault, shooting, or cardiac failure during a scuffle) is exactly what the trial is about.
Gagan Yadav: the influencer-politician from Uttar Pradesh
"Gagan yadav kaun hai / kaha ka hai / kis party" point to a rising Uttar Pradesh social-media figure: Gagan Yadav, who identifies publicly as the national president (youth wing) of the Rashtriya Parivartan Dal (RPD), the party of veteran bahubali-politician D.P. Yadav, and head of the "Indian Reformers Organisation." His search visibility jumped when Navbharat Times reported in mid-2026 that RPD chief D.P. Yadav's "first move" for the 2027 UP election cycle was fielding the influencer from the Gunnaur seat in Sambhal district (report). He is a district-to-district candidate-level figure, not a national one, which is why authoritative biographical data on him is thin, and why we flag this entry as current reporting and not settled record.
Naveen Yadav: the Jubilee Hills by-poll winner
The late-2025 Hyderabad spike resolved cleanly: V. Naveen Yadav, candidate of the Indian National Congress, won the Jubilee Hills assembly by-election in Telangana in November 2025 with a margin of a little over 24,000 votes (about 24,729 in the final tally reported by Wikipedia's entry and the Times of India), handing the Congress a high-profile win in the state's glitziest constituency and strengthening CM Revanth Reddy's standing. Before the win he was a constituency-level Congress functionary, which is why "who is Naveen Yadav" searches preceded, not followed, the result.
Bharti Yadav: D.P. Yadav's daughter and the Nitish Katara case
"Bharti yadav daughter of DP Yadav" and "where is Bharti Yadav now" refer to the same story. Bharti Yadav and Nitish Katara were classmates at the Institute of Management Technology in Ghaziabad and were seeing each other; Katara was a 23-year-old business executive when he was killed in February 2002, and the trial court held his murder was an honour killing because her family disapproved of the relationship. Wikipedia's account of the case records the long fight over her evidence: the Uttar Pradesh prosecution moved to drop her as a witness, Katara's mother challenged that, and in October 2005 the court ruled her a material witness required to testify. Those convicted in the case are her brothers Vikas and Vishal Yadav, found guilty by the trial court in May 2008, and the Supreme Court in October 2016 set the sentence for them and co-accused Sukhdev Pehelwan at 25 years without remission. She married Yatin Rao of Gurgaon in a low-key ceremony reported by the Hindustan Times at the time, and press reports since have placed her living out of public view, reportedly abroad. The accurate answer to "where is she now" is: she maintains no public profile, and anything more specific would be speculation.
The pattern behind these searches
Three things repeat across every entry: identity ambiguity (several Yadavs share one name-space), news-event spikes (results, deaths, squads and verdicts create the queries, not the people), and party-switch churn that makes "which party" a perishable fact. That is exactly why this page is dated: treat 21 September 2026 as the verification stamp, and assume any "current" claim here (parties, offices, trial status) may have moved.
How far each entry is stated
Court-process claims on this page are stated only as far as the reported record goes: arrests, bail and sentences appear as reported outcomes, not as findings of guilt. Party affiliation, office and trial status are the perishable parts of these profiles, so every claim here rests on the references linked below.