Ram Gopal Yadav
Ram Gopal Yadav | |
|---|---|
| Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha | |
| Assumed office 26 November 2008 | |
| Constituency | Uttar Pradesh |
| In office 5 July 1992 – 4 July 2004 | |
| Constituency | Uttar Pradesh |
| Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha | |
| In office 13 May 2004 – 26 November 2008 | |
| Preceded by | Mulayam Singh Yadav |
| Succeeded by | Shafiqur Rahman Barq |
| Constituency | Sambhal, Uttar Pradesh |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 29 June 1946 |
| Party | Samajwadi Party |
| Spouse |
Phoolan Devi
(m. 1962; died 2010) |
| Relations | Mulayam Singh Yadav (cousin) Shivpal Singh Yadav (cousin) Akhilesh Yadav (nephew) Dharmendra Yadav (nephew) Tej Pratap Singh Yadav (grand-nephew) Aditya Yadav (nephew) Arvind Pratap (nephew) |
| Children | 4 (1 daughter and 3 sons; including Akshay Yadav) |
| Alma mater | Agra University Kanpur University |
Ram Gopal Yadav (born 29 June 1946) is an Indian politician from Uttar Pradesh. He is the Secretary-General of the Samajwadi Party and a Member of Parliament (MP) in Rajya Sabha, since 2008. Yadav also served as Lok Sabha MP of Sambhal from 2004 to 2008.
On 23 October 2016, he was expelled from the party by Shivpal Singh Yadav, the state president of Samajwadi Party. He was accepted later in the party. On 30 December 2016, Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav, who was also Ram Gopal's cousin, expelled him from the party again for six years, but on the following day the expulsion was revoked by the party on constitutional grounds.