Political Leaders
Explore political careers, parliamentary offices, electoral milestones, and governance legacies of prominent Yadav political leaders.
Politics Akhilesh Yadav
Politician / Member of Parliament
President of Samajwadi Party, Former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Kannauj MP
Politicians Aparna Yadav
Politician, classical singer and social worker
Indian politician, classical singer and social worker; contested Lucknow Cantt on a Samajwadi Party ticket in 2017 and joined the BJP in January 2022; daughter-in-law of Mulayam Singh Yadav
Politicians D. P. Yadav
Politician; founder-president, Rashtriya Parivartan Dal
Four-term Uttar Pradesh MLA who won Bulandshahr three times and Sahaswan once, served one term in the Lok Sabha from Sambhal and one in the Rajya Sabha, held office under five party labels, founded the Rashtriya Parivartan Dal in 2007, and was acquitted by the Uttarakhand High Court in 2021 in the 1992 Mahendra Singh Bhati murder case
Politicians Dharmendra Yadav
Politician, four-term Member of Parliament
Four-term Lok Sabha member; Samajwadi Party MP for Azamgarh since 2024; winner of the 2004 Mainpuri by-poll in Mulayam Singh Yadav's vacated seat; nephew of Mulayam Singh Yadav and Shivpal Singh Yadav
Politicians Dimple Yadav
Politician and Member of Parliament
Four-term Lok Sabha MP from Kannauj and Mainpuri; Samajwadi Party senior leader and daughter-in-law of Mulayam Singh Yadav
Politicians Dularchand Yadav
Politician and local strongman; described as a don-turned-politician by the Times of India, a muscleman by the Hindustan Times, a former RJD leader by the Indian Express and the Hindu, and a social worker by Tejashwi Yadav
A strongman of the Mokama taal in Patna district who contested the Bihar assembly on three tickets and lost every contest, and who was shot in the left leg and killed on 30 October 2025 during a clash between rival campaign convoys, in the first poll-related murder of the 2025 Bihar election
Politicians Lalu Prasad Yadav
Politician
Two-time Chief Minister of Bihar; Union Railway Minister; founder-president of the Rashtriya Janata Dal and defining figure of OBC/'Bahujan' politics in North India
Politicians Mohan Yadav
Politician, advocate and author; Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh
19th and current Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh; three-time MLA for Ujjain South; former State Education Minister; ABVP and RSS functionary turned cabinet chief
Politicians Mulayam Singh Yadav
Politician, former schoolteacher
Founder of the Samajwadi Party; three-time Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh; Union Defence Minister; patriarch of the Yadav political dynasty of Uttar Pradesh
Politicians Naveen Yadav
Politician; architect and real estate developer
Congress MLA who won the Jubilee Hills by-election on 14 November 2025 with 98,988 votes and a margin of 24,729, on his fourth attempt at the seat, one year after he filed an election petition against the previous member
Politics Pappu Yadav
Politician, Member of Parliament (Purnia, 2024–present)
Six-time Lok Sabha MP from Bihar; JD(U) president Sharad Yadav's 2014 conqueror at Madhepura; 2024 Purnia Independent winner; author of the Hindi memoir Drohkaal ka Pathik
Politics Prateek Yadav
Businessman (fitness, gym and real-estate interests); public figure of the Yadav family
Younger son of Mulayam Singh Yadav whose sudden death on 13 May 2026 (postmortem: pulmonary thromboembolism, against unproven public poisoning claims) became a national story
Politicians Ram Kripal Yadav
Politician; holds law degree by his own article's account
Five-term Lok Sabha member from Patna and Pataliputra who left the RJD for the BJP in March 2014, beat Misa Bharti that year by 40,322 votes, lost to her by 85,174 in 2024, and is now a Bihar cabinet minister
Politicians Sanjay Yadav
Politician and political adviser; occupation declared as social worker in the February 2024 election papers
Political adviser to Tejashwi Yadav, credited by ThePrint and The Hindu with the strategy behind the RJD's 2015 and 2020 Bihar campaigns, returned unopposed to the Rajya Sabha from Bihar in February 2024
Politicians Sharad Yadav
Politician; Member of Parliament
Seven-term Lok Sabha member and four-term Rajya Sabha member who won the 1974 Jabalpur by-poll from jail at 27, pressed the V. P. Singh government to implement the Mandal Commission report in 1990, held four Union portfolios, and built the Janata Dal (United)
Politics Shivpal Singh Yadav
Politician, MLA Jaswantnagar; Samajwadi Party General Secretary (National)
Younger brother of Mulayam Singh Yadav and uncle of Akhilesh Yadav; six-time MLA for Jaswantnagar; Public Works minister 2012-2016; founder and president of the Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohia) from 2018 until it merged back into the SP in December 2022; SP national general secretary since January 2023
Politicians Tej Pratap Singh Yadav
Politician; occupation declared as agriculture work and director in company in 2014 and as agriculture and business in 2024
Won the Mainpuri Lok Sabha by-election at 26 in 2014 after Mulayam Singh Yadav kept Azamgarh, sat one term, was named and then un-named as the Samajwadi Party candidate at Kannauj in April 2024, and took the Karhal assembly seat in November 2024 after Akhilesh Yadav kept Kannauj
Politicians Tej Pratap Yadav
Politician, content creator, former Cabinet Minister of Environment & Forests, Government of Bihar
Former Bihar minister and two-time MLA; elder son of Lalu Prasad Yadav; expelled from the RJD in May 2025; president of the Jan Shakti Janata Dal and political content creator
Politicians Yogendra Yadav
Psephologist, political scientist, author and activist-politician
Psephologist who built the CSDS-Lokniti election-study programme; founding AAP strategist and later its expelled critic; founder of Swaraj India; Samyukt Kisan Morcha coordinator; national convener of Bharat Jodo Abhiyan
Politics Tejashwi Yadav
Politician / Leader of Opposition
RJD leader, Former Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar, Youth Icon in Bihar politics