Renu Kumari Yadav

Renu Kumari Yadav
रेनु कुमारी यादव
Joint chairman of People's Socialist Party
Assumed office
5 May 2024
Preceded byposition established
Minister for Physical Infrastructure and Transportation
In office
8 October 2021 – 4 July 2022
PresidentBidhya Devi Bhandari
Prime MinisterSher Bahadur Deuba
Preceded byBasanta Kumar Nembwang
Succeeded byMohammad Estiyak Rai
Minister for Education
In office
2008–2009
PresidentRam Baran Yadav
Prime MinisterPushpa Kamal Dahal
Minister for Women, Children and Social Affairs
In office
2003–2004
MonarchBirendra of Nepal
Prime MinisterSurya Bahadur Thapa
Member of Parliament, Pratinidhi Sabha
In office
4 March 2018 – 2023
In office
May 1999 – May 2002
Preceded byAnis Ansari
Succeeded byMahesh Prasad Yadav
ConstituencySaptari 3
Member of Constituent Assembly
In office
28 May 2008 – 28 May 2012
Preceded byJagadish Prasad Sah
Succeeded byTara Kanta Chaudhary
ConstituencySaptari 4
Personal details
Born (1959-01-16) January 16, 1959 (age 65)[1]
Forbesganj, Bihar, India
NationalityNepali
Political partyIndependent
Other political
affiliations
Nepali Congress
Rastriya Prajatantra Party
Rastriya Janashakti Party
Madhesi Jana Adhikar Forum, Nepal
Federal Socialist Forum, Nepal
Samajbadi Party, Nepal
People's Socialist Party, Nepal

Renu Kumari Yadav (Nepali: रेणु कुमारी यादव) (born 16 January 1959) is a Nepali politician and member of House of Representatives on proportional representation.[2]

She most recently served as the Minister for Physical Infrastructure and Transportation of Nepal in the ruling coalition government led by Prime Minister and Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba.[3] Recently, Yadav resigned from the People's Socialist Party, Nepal.[4]

Personal life

Yadav was born on June 19, 1963, in Forbesganj, India to Rameshwor Prasad and Chintamani Devi Yadav. She belongs to the Ahir community.[5]

Political life

Yadav was elected as a Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) candidate to the Pratinidhi Sabha in the 1999 election from the Saptari 3 constituency.[6] In 2002 she was elected to the central committee of the RPP.[7]

In June 2003, she was named Minister for Women, Children and Social Affairs in the Surya Bahadur Thapa-led cabinet appointed by King Gyanendra.[8] When the RPP was divided and Thapa broke away and formed the Rastriya Janshakti Party, Yadav joined the new RJP.

In February 2008 she resigned from the parliament and left RJP, in support of the Madhesi agitation.[9][10]

In April 2008, she won the Saptari 4 seat in the Constituent Assembly election as a Madhesi Janadhikar Forum candidate.[11] In late May 2008, she was included in the central committee of MJF.[12] She was subsequently appointed as Minister of Education and sworn in on August 22, 2008.[13]

Controversies

Electoral history

Saptari 4
Party Candidate Votes
CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist) Tara Kanta Chaudhary 8,217
Nepali Congress Dinesh Kumar Yadav 6,985
Madheshi Janaadhikar Forum, Nepal (Democratic) Satya Narayan Yadav 4,384
Sadbhavana Party Jismul Khan 4,141
Madhesi Jana Adhikar Forum, Nepal Renu Kumari Yadav 3,007
Independent Surya Narayan Mandal 1,533
Rastriya Madhesh Samajbadi Party Gajendra Kumar Mandal 1,515
Terai Madhesh Loktantrik Party Puspa Thakur 1,005
Others 5,996
Result CPN (UML) gain
Source: NepalNews[21]
Saptari 4
Party Candidate Votes
Madhesi Jana Adhikar Forum, Nepal Renu Kumari Yadav 12,681
Nepal Sadbhavana Party (Anandidevi) Jismul Khan 7,590
Nepali Congress Dinesh Kumar Yadav 6,070
Sadbhavana Party Satya Narayan Yadav 5,344
CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist) Jagadish Prasad Sah 5,254
CPN (Maoist) Chhedi Safi 2,899
Terai Madhesh Loktantrik Party Surendra Narayan Mandal 2,536
Dalit Janajati Party Jagajiwan Ram 1,966
Others 4,678
Invalid votes 2,974
Result MJFN gain
Source: Election Commission[22]
Saptari 3
Party Candidate Votes
Rastriya Prajatantra Party Renu Kumari Yadav 17,231
CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist) Suman Raj Pyakurel 10,910
Nepali Congress Anis Ansari 10,803
Nepal Sadbhawana Party Surya Narayan Mandal 10,126
Others 2,699
Invalid Votes 1,914
Result RPP gain
Source: Election Commission[23][24]
Saptari 3
Party Candidate Votes
Nepal Sadbhawana Party Anis Ansari 12,743
Independent Surya Narayan Mandal 8,921
Rastriya Prajatantra Party Renu Kumari Yadav 6,411
Nepali Congress Dev Narayan Yadav 5,431
CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist) Jaya Krishna Goit 5,367
Independent Shiva Prasad Pokharel 2,590
Others 999
Result NSP gain
Source: Election Commission[23]

References

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