Birth Date: | 21 November 1987 |
Birth Place: | Saifai, Uttar Pradesh, India |
Residence: | Saifai, Etawah, Uttar Pradesh |
Office2: | Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha |
Constituency2: | Mainpuri |
Term Start2: | 13 September 2014 |
Term End2: | 23 May 2019 |
Predecessor2: | Mulayam Singh Yadav |
Successor2: | Mulayam Singh Yadav |
Party: | Samajwadi Party |
Nationality: | Indian |
Relations: | See: |
Profession: | Politician |
Office: | Member of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly |
Term Start: | 23 November 2024 |
Constituency: | Karhal |
Predecessor: | Akhilesh Yadav |
Tej Pratap Singh Yadav (born 21 November 1987) is an Indian politician is an MLA representing the Karhal and former Member of Parliament in the Indian Lok Sabha, where he represented the Mainpuri, Uttar Pradesh, from 2014 to 2019 as a member of the Samajwadi Party.
Tej Pratap Singh Yadav was born on 21 November 1987 in Saifai village of Etawah district to Ranvir Singh Yadav and Mridula Yadav.
He studied at the Colonel Brown Cambridge School, Dehradun, and the Delhi Public School, Noida. He graduated with an MBA from the Leeds University Business School.
See also: Political families of Uttar Pradesh.
His grandfather Ratan Singh Yadav, was the elder brother of Mulayam Singh Yadav.
Hariom Yadav, the former MLA of Sirsaganj and Shikohabad is his maternal granduncle.
He successfully contested a by-election to replace his granduncle, Mulayam Singh Yadav, as the Member of Parliament of the Mainpuri. [1] He Successfully contested a by-election to replace his uncle, Akhilesh Yadav, as the MLA of the Karhal.
From | To | Positions | Party | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1. | 2014 | 2019 | MP in 16th Lok Sabha from Mainpuri (by-election) | SP | |
2. | 2024 | MLA from Karhal (by-election) | SP |
In 2015, Tej Pratap married Raj Lakshmi Yadav, the youngest daughter of Lalu Prasad Yadav and Rabri Devi.[2] The couple had a child in 2016.[3]
He is part of management committee of two colleges named Chaudhary Charan Singh Post Graduate College and Chaudhary Charan Singh College of Law, both colleges established by Mulayam Singh Yadav.