Lalu Prasad Yadav Wife

RJD leader Lalu Prasad Yadav married Rabri Devi on 1 June 1973, in an arranged marriage, and they went on to have 9 children: two sons and 7 daughters.

Lalu Prasad Yadav Daughters

Lalu Prasad Yadav has seven daughters. His eldest daughter is Misa Bharti Devi.

The name of other daughtres are Rohini Acharya, Chanda Singh, Ragini Yadav, Hema Yadav, Anushka Rao and Rajlaxmi Singh.

Lalu Prasad Son

He has two sons Tej Pratap Yadav and Tejashwi Yadav.

Lalu Prasad Education

He attended a local middle school Phulwaria in Bihar before moving to Patna with his elder brother.

After completing Bachelor of Laws and a Master in Political Science from BN College of Patna University, he worked as clerk in Bihar Veterinary College at Patna. Later in 2004, he turned down Patna University’s Honorary Doctorate.

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Lalu Prasad Biography

Soon in 1970, Lalu entered in student politics as General Secretary of the Patna University Students’ Union (PUSU), became its president in 1973.

Later he became sufficiently close to Janata Party (JP) leaders to became the Janata alliance’s winning candidate in the 1977 Lok Sabha election from Chapra at the age of 29.

By 1990, he positioned himself as the leader of Yadav (11.7% of the Bihar’s) and lower castes. Muslims, who had traditionally served as Congress (I) vote bank, shifted their loyalty to Prasad after the 1989 Bhagalpur violence.

He became popular among the Muslim and Yadav voters of Bihar. Soon he became Chief Minister of Bihar in 1990 but had to resign in 1997 following escalating corruption charges relating to the Fodder Scam.

From 1997 to 2005 his wife Rabri Devi ruled as the Chief Minister of the state. Soon his party came to power in Bihar Legislative Assembly election, 2015 in partnership with Nitish Kumar of JD(U). Later Nitish Kumar dumped Lalu’s party from the power in July 2017.

Later the Enforcement Directorate and CBI lodged several criminal cases against Lalu in another disproportionate assets and railway tender bribery scam during Lalu’s stint as the Railway Minister.

On 3 October 2013, he was sentenced to five years of rigorous imprisonment. Later Yadav was found guilty in third fodder scam case in January, 2018.

Soon in March, 2018 Special CBI Court convicted him in the fourth fodder scam case which is related to swindling of Rs. 3.13 crore from the Dumka treasury.

In Dumka Treasury case total Rs 60 lakh fine imposed and 14 years’ imprisonment on Lalu Prasad Yadav in to run consecutively.

Lalu Prasad Caste

He belongs to Yadav caste. The Yadavs are included in the Other Backward Classes (OBCs) category in the Indian state of Bihar.