Honorific-Prefix: | His Excellency The Right Honourable |
Ram Sahaya Yadav | |
Office: | 3rd Vice President of Nepal |
Term Start: | 20 March 2023 |
President: | Ram Chandra Paudel |
Primeminister: | Pushpa Kamal Dahal Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli |
Predecessor: | Nanda Kishor Pun |
Office1: | Minister of Forests and Environment |
Term Start1: | 8 October 2021 |
Term End1: | 3 July 2022 |
President1: | Bidhya Devi Bhandari |
Primeminister1: | Sher Bahadur Deuba |
Predecessor1: | Krishna Gopal Shrestha |
Successor1: | Pradeep Yadav |
Office2: | Member of Parliament, Pratinidhi Sabha |
Term Start2: | 4 March 2018 |
Term End2: | 20 March 2023 |
Constituency2: | Bara 2 |
Predecessor2: | Ramchandra Yadav |
Successor2: | Upendra Yadav |
Office3: | Member of the Constituent Assembly for Madheshi Jana Adhikar Forum party list |
Term Start3: | 28 May 2008 |
Term End3: | 28 May 2012 |
Party: | Independent |
Otherparty: | |
Nationality: | Nepali |
Birth Date: | 24 July 1971[1] |
Spouse: | Champa Devi Yadav |
Website: | http://vpn.gov.np/en/ |
Ram Sahaya Prasad Yadav (born 24 July 1971) is a Nepalese politician serving as the vice president of Nepal since 20 March 2023. He is a former minister for forests and environment of Nepal.[2] He was a member of the 1st Federal Parliament of Nepal. In the 2017 Nepalese general election, he was elected from the Bara 2 constituency, securing 28,185 (50.01%) votes.[3] [4]
Yadav started his political career in 1990 by joining Madheshi Jana Adhikar Forum, Nepal. Later he became the founding general secretary of the Madhesi Jana Adhikar Forum. He was involved in the first Madhesh Movement of 2007. He was first elected in 2008 to the first Constituent Assembly from Bara district. In 2017, he was re-elected. [2]
Yadav also served as the Minister of Forest and Environment in Sher Bahadur Deuba's cabinet.[2]