Jagadambi Prasad Yadav | |
Birth Date: | 1 January 1925 |
Birth Place: | Munger, Bihar and Orissa Province, British India |
Death Place: | Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India |
Education: | B.A. |
Party: | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Spouse: | Janaki Devi |
Children: | 8 |
Office: | Minister of State for Commerce & Industry |
Term Start: | 26 January 1979 |
Term End: | 28 July 1979 |
Primeminister: | Morarji Desai |
Minister: | George Fernandes |
Office1: | Minister of State for Health & Family Welfare |
Term Start1: | 14 August 1977 |
Term End1: | 26 January 1979 |
Primeminister1: | Morarji Desai |
Minister1: | Raj Narain Morarji Desai |
Office2: | Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha |
Term Start2: | 1996 |
Term End2: | 2002 |
Predecessor2: | Suraj Mandal |
Successor2: | Pradeep Yadav |
Constituency2: | Godda |
Term Start3: | 1977 |
Term End3: | 1980 |
Predecessor3: | Jagdish Mandal |
Successor3: | Maulana Saminuddin |
Constituency3: | Godda |
Office4: | Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha |
Term Start4: | 3 April 1982 |
Term End4: | 2 April 1988 |
Constituency4: | Bihar |
Term Start5: | 3 April 1968 |
Term End5: | 2 April 1974 |
Constituency5: | Bihar |
Office6: | President of Bharatiya Janata Party, Bihar |
Term Start6: | 1981 |
Term End6: | 1984 |
Predecessor6: | Kailashpati Mishra |
Source: | http://164.100.47.194/loksabha/Members/memberbioprofile.aspx?mpsno=529&lastls=13 |
Jagadambi Prasad Yadav was a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and a minister of state Health and Family Welfare from 1977 to 1979 and then minister of state Commerce and Industry in the Morarji Desai Government of India. He was elected to Lok Sabha from Godda in Jharkhand. At the time of his death in 2002, he was Convenor of the Parliamentary Committee on Official Languages. He was President of Bharatiya Jana Sangh in Bihar as well as Bihar Bharatiya Janata Party from 1981 to 1984.