Vinayak Prasad Yadav
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| death_date = 7 January 2002
| death_place = Kaushalipatti, Bihar
| office1 = Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
| constituency1 = Saharsa, Bihar
| term1 = 1977-1980
| predecessor1 = Chiranjib Jha
| successor1 = Kamal Nath Jha
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| party = Janata Party
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Vinayak Prasad Yadav (died 7 January 2002) was an Indian politician. He was a Member of Parliament, representing Saharsa, Bihar, in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of India's Parliament, as a member of the Janata Party.{{cite web|url=http://loksabhaph.nic.in/writereaddata/biodata_1_12/3461.htm|title=Lok Sabha Profiles|access-date=9 May 2019|archive-date=9 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190509191641/http://loksabhaph.nic.in/writereaddata/biodata_1_12/3461.htm|url-status=live}}
Life
Vinayak Prasad Yadav was jailed several times for his activities as a part of the Quit India Movement in 1942. He was elected a member of the Legislative Assembly of Bihar for the periods 1967-1968 and 1972–1974, as well as being elected in 1985 and 1990. He served for some time as a minister in the Government of Bihar.
Following the killing of Jagdeo Prasad by police at Kurtha in 1974 Yadav, who was then a member of the Samyukta Socialist Party, resigned from the Bihar Legislative Assembly in protest.{{cite book |title=Democracy and Dissent: A Case Study of the Bihar Movement, 1974-75 |first=Lalan |last=Tiwari |publisher=Mittal Publications |year=1987 |isbn=978-8-17099-008-6 |pages=86–87 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=td6zIMI_pwAC&pg=PA86 |access-date=18 June 2020 |archive-date=19 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230419204733/https://books.google.com/books?id=td6zIMI_pwAC&pg=PA86 |url-status=live }}
Yadav also served one term as a Member of Parliament, being elected to the Sixth Lok Sabha from the Saharsa constituency in Bihar for the period 1977 to 1979. He was among 27 MPs who left the Janata Party parliamentary group in July 1979 in protest at that party's acceptance of associates who were involved with the right-wing Hindutva organisation, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. All those among the 27 who came from Bihar were supporters of Karpoori Thakur.{{cite book |title=India Since Independence: Making Sense of Indian Politics |first= Ananth V. |last=Krishna |publisher=Pearson Education India |year=2011 |isbn=978-8-13173-465-0 |page=229 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8v7Vr2iQUHkC&pg=PA229}}
Outside politics, Yadav was a lawyer. He died, aged 74, at Kaushalipatti, Bihar on 7 January 2002.{{cite web |url=https://eparlib.nic.in/handle/123456789/759637?view_type=browse |access-date=2020-06-18 |publisher=Parliament of India |title=Lok Sabha Debates 14 May 2002 |page=2 |archive-date=19 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200619134354/https://eparlib.nic.in/handle/123456789/759637?view_type=browse |url-status=live }}
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Category:Lok Sabha members from Bihar
Category:Janata Party politicians
Category:Samyukta Socialist Party politicians