| Dr. Sudha Yadav | |
| Office: | Member of BJP Parliamentary Board |
| Term Start: | 17 August 2022[1] |
| Office1: | Member, National Commission of Backward Classes |
| Term Start1: | 28 February 2019 |
| Term End1: | 27 February 2022[2] |
| Office2: | Member of Parliament (13th Loksabha)[3] |
| Term Start2: | 1999 |
| Term End2: | 2004 |
| Constituency2: | Mahendragarh |
| Predecessor2: | Rao Inderjit Singh |
| Successor2: | Rao Inderjit Singh |
| Education: | M.Sc.(Chemistry) and is a Gold Medallist, Ph.D.(Chemistry) from Roorkee University (IIT Roorkee) |
| Birth Date: | 1965 10, mf=y |
| Birth Place: | Motla Kalan, Rewari, Haryana, India |
| Residence: | Rewari |
| Occupation: | Political and Social Worker, educationist |
| Predecessor: | Nitin Gadkari Shivraj Singh Chauhan |
| Party: | Bhartiya Janta Party |
| Spouse: | Late Deputy Commandant Sukhbir Singh Yadav |
| Children: | Two |
| Date: | 9 April |
| Year: | 2009 |
Sudha Yadav (born 16 October 1965) is an Indian politician and a member of the Parliamentary Board of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Sudha Yadav served as a member of the 13th Lok Sabha from 1994 until 2004 from her elected seat at Mahendragarh, Haryana.
On 3 July 2015, she was appointed the National In-Charge of the BJP OBC Morcha.[4] [5] [6] She served as a member of the National Commission for Backward Classes for the government of India from 2019 to 2022.[7]
On 17 August 2022, she became a member of the Parliamentary Board of the BJP.[8] She is the second woman to hold the position, after Sushma Swaraj.[9]
Sudha Yadav obtained her MSc in Chemistry in 1987 from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee (IIT Roorkee), where she went on to obtain her PhD in Chemistry in 1992. She is the recipient of the President's Guide award.[10]
Her husband, Deputy Commandant Sukhbir Singh Yadav of the Border Security Force, died in the Kargil war. She has two children.
In 1999, the current Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, then in-charge of the Haryana BJP, proposed Sudha Yadav as a candidate for the general election. It was her first year in politics.[11] The BJP fielded her as their candidate and she defeated Rao Inderjit Singh by 1.39 lakh (139,000) votes.[12]
She lost the subsequent elections in 2004 and 2009.