Lalu Prasad Yadav
Also known as Lalu Yadav
Lalu Prasad Yadav is an Indian politician who served as the chief minister of Bihar from 1991 to 1997 and as the union minister for Railways from 2004 to 2009. He is the founding president of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), a prominent political party in Bihar. He is also a former member of Parliament (MP) of the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha.
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- Prime minister
- Manmohan Singh
- Preceded by
- Nitish Kumar
- Succeeded by
- Mamata Banerjee
- Governor
- A. R. Kidwai
- Constituency
- Saran, Bihar
- Born
- ( 1948-06-11 ) 11 June 1948 (age 77) , Phulwariya , Bihar , India
- Party
- Rashtriya Janata Dal
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Lalu Prasad Yadav (born 11 June 1948) is an Indian politician who served as the chief minister of Bihar from 1991 to 1997 and as the union minister for Railways from 2004 to 2009. He is the founding president of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), a prominent political party in Bihar. He is also a former member of Parliament (MP) of the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha.
His political rise in the 1990s marked a significant shift in Bihar's social and political landscape.