Shivpal Singh Yadav

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Sarla Yadav
(m. 1981)
Shivpal Singh Yadav
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Member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Assumed office
17 October 1996
Relations Mulayam 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 mater K.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 educationis 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.

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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.

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1.19962002 MLA (1st term) from Jaswantnagar SP
2.20022007 MLA (2nd term) from Jaswantnagar SP
3.20072012 MLA (3rd term) from Jaswantnagar SP
4.20122017 MLA (4th term) from Jaswantnagar SP
5.20172022 MLA (5th term) from Jaswantnagar SP
6.2022Present 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.

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