Laxmi Narayan Yadav

Laxmi Narayan Yadav
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
In office
16 May 2014  23 May 2019
Preceded byBhupendra Singh
Succeeded byRajbahadur Singh
ConstituencySagar
Member of the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly
for Surkhi
In office
19901993
Preceded byVitthalbhai Patel
Succeeded byBhupendra Singh
In office
19771980
Preceded byGaya Prasad Kabirpanthi
Succeeded byVitthalbhai Patel
Minister of Higher Education,
Cabinet of Madhya Pradesh
In office
19781980
Personal details
Born (1944-12-09) 9 December 1944
Sagar, Central Provinces and Berar, British India
Political partyBJP (since 2014)
Other political
affiliations
Janata Party (1977–1993)
Residence(s)Sagar, Madhya Pradesh
Education
  • B.A.
  • LL.B.
Alma materSagar University
University of Delhi
Websitewww.laxminarayanyadav.in

Laxmi Narayan Yadav (Hindi pronunciation: [ləkʂmiː n̪aːɾaːjəɳ jaːd̪əʋ]) is a socialist leader and former member of parliament (MP) of Bhartiya Janata Party. He has won the 2014 Indian general elections from the Sagar (Lok Sabha constituency). He is two times MLA from Surkhi (Vidhan Sabha constituency) assembly seat of Sagar district in Madhya Pradesh. First time, he was elected in 1977 from Surkhi (Vidhan Sabha constituency) from Janata Party. He has defeated Vitthalbhai Patel who was a Congress leader and Jhooth Bole Kauwa Kaate famed Bollywood lyricist and poet and industrialist. During the same tenure in 1978 – 1980 he served as Minister for Higher Education, in Government of Madhya Pradesh in the Sakhlecha ministry. Mr. Virendra Kumar Sakhlecha was the then chief minister. Second time, in 1989, Mr. Yadav again defeated Patel from the same constituency.