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History of LALU PRASAD YADAV'S Political career.

Lalu Prasad Yadav entered politics as General Secretary of the Patna University Students Union in 1970. He led the student movement inspired by Jai Prakash Narayan, Raj Narain and Karpoori Thakur. The former Chief
Minister of Bihar and then-President of Bihar State Janata
Party, Satyendra Narayan Sinha supported him as a candidate for the Lok Sabha
and campaigned for him. He was elected as a member of 9th Lok Sabha on a Janata
Party ticket at the age 29, becoming one of the youngest members of the Indian
Parliament at the time.

In a span of 10 years, Yadav became a formidable force in Bihar State Politics. During the Indian general elections in 1989 and state assembly elections, he successfully led the National Front coalition in Bihar.
It was, therefore, no surprise that he was elected the Chief Minister leaving
behind Ram Sundar Das, a former chief minister from the same party, when it
came to power in the 1990 Assembly elections. The World Bank lauded his party
for its work in the 1990s on the economic front.

A report was published by the BBC news in 1986 according to which the police unearthed a Rs 1950 crore (US$ 267 Million), Fodder Scam in Bihar, which allegedly involved Yadav and the State's leading bureaucrats and
politicians, albeit the probe itself was ordered by him. Some people claim it
to be an opposition's conspiracy to stop his unprecedented political growth.
The fodder scam forced Yadav to resign from the office of Chief Minister and he
brought his wife, Rabri Devi, as his successor.

Yadav formed the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) in 1997, after breaking away from the Janata Dal. According to Limca Book of Records, he is the longest serving president of an Indian Political Party. He remained in
power in Bihar for more than one and a half decades. In November 2005
elections, his party, the RJD could win just 54 seats, which put his party in
third place, after the Janata Dal United (JDU) and the Bharatiya Janata Party
(BJP). Nitish Kumar led coalition, consisting of JD (U) and BJP, came to power.

Yadav was elected to the 14th Lok Sabha from Chhapra and Madhepura seats of Bihar. He was able to defeat the high profile BJP leader Rajiv Pratap Rudy from Chhapra and the JD (U) president Sharad Yadav from Madhepura. However
in the 15th Lok Sabha elections Yadav will contest from Saran and Patiliputra.
At Saran, he will again run into Rajiv Pratap Rudy. He became the railway
minister in the UPA Government. Later, he gave up the Madhepura seat.

Yadav banned plastic cups to serve tea at railway stations and ordered that they be replaced by kulhars (earthen cups), to generate more employment in rural areas. Later, he also said that he had plans
to introduce buttermilk and khādī. In June 2004, he announced that he would get
on the railway himself to inspect its problems and went on to board the Patna
railway station at midnight.

When he took over, the Indian Railways was a loss-making organization. In the 4 years under his leadership, made a cumulative total profit of Rs. 25,000 crore (US$ 5.2 billion).

He left passenger fares untouched and found several other profitable sources of revenue for the Railways. He also improved on his first year's performance by stating a profit of 14,000 crores with decreased freight
and unchanged passenger fares in 2006. Then, in the 2007 budget, he increased
the profit level to 20,000 crores with the introduction of cushion seats in all
unreserved compartments.In 2008, profits were 25,000 crore (equals $ 6.25
billion @ $1~Rs.40)

Well known schools of management were interested in Yadav's leadership in managing the turnaround (with more or less the same IAS officers & the same
workforce who worked under the previous ministers). He went to and addressed
over a hundred students from Harvard, Wharton and others in Hindi. He has
received invitations from 8 Ivy League schools for lectures. The turnaround of
the Indian Railways is now being studied by the students of the Indian
Institute of Management Ahmedabad. Prof G. Raghuram, a faculty member, IIM-A,
has already conducted a detailed study on the Railways turnaround.

In August 2008, CNN-IBN alleged that Yadav had misused his position as the Union Railway Minister to help his relatives acquire land. Earlier Railway ministers and his political opponents Mamata Banerjee &
Nitish Kumar has raised doubt over Lalu's achievements

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Comment by Amit Chandra Sharma on July 4, 2011 at 11:26am: Nice laloo Chalisa....

Comment by Nazre Imam on September 16, 2010 at 4:54am: Mohit @ i just want to share the information about Lalu yadav,, that's it.
Yes the content is totally from Wikipedia,,,
Thanks u took interest in my article,,,,, i personally appreciate u.

Comment by Mohit on September 15, 2010 at 1:29am: Nice...i mean nice copy paste from wikipedia. Y did u stopped...u sud have pasted some more para, no problem i will do it. People sud know that too..as an information of course.

Criticisms and controversies

Yadav's party is alleged to have continued in power for several years on the strength of the Muslim-Yadav combination vote bank. and is considered extremely popular among members of both communities.His brand of politics has caused a great deal of resentment among some caste groups like Bhumihars,Because Lalu Yadav centered his government to raise the extremely pitiable life style of lots of poor people. So some people of higher cast dislike him because those poor people are announced as untouchable according Brahmanism system in India. So Yadav got claimed by Bhumihars to criticised for aggravating caste divisions through his policies,and also admirered claim that he helps disadvantaged groups out of a belief in secularism andsocial justice. Yadav's achievement is reflected from his famous quote,
"I've not given them (the poor people of Bihar) heaven, but I've given them a voice. ”
.The most notorious, of these, is the Siwan MP Mohammad Shahabuddin. Many of Yadav's own party members, including Gopalganj MP Sadhu Yadav (brother of Lalu's brother-in-law Subhash Yadav), had asked him to sever ties with Shahbuddin.

Corruption allegations
Yadav has been charged with corruption cases, the most infamous being the "Fodder Scam". In the Fodder Scam, about Rs. 950 crore (US$ 211.85 million) was siphoned off from the animal husbandry department. Laloo Yadav has been an accused in many of the 63 odd cases filed.He has been remained to custody on multiple occasions because of the number of cases. Over 64 people have been convicted in the case.. "Lalu accused in six fodder scam cases". Outlook. April 25, 2005. Retrieved 2006-05-29.
"The ride to Ranchi". Frontline. December 2001. Yadav was first sent to "Judicial remand" (Bihar Military Police guest house, Patna) on July 30, 1997 for 134 days. On October 28, 1998, he was sent again to the same guest house for 73 days. When the Supreme Court of India took exception to his guest house stay, he had also shifted to the Beur jail in Patna. He was later remanded for 11 days on April 5, 2000, in a disproportionate assets case. He surrendered along with his wife, Rabri Devi, and was sent to the Beur Jail.Due to proceedings in the fodder scam, Yadav was remanded for a day in Beur jail on November 28, 2000.
On November 26, 2001, Yadav was again remanded, in a case related to the Fodder scam. He accused NDA of creating a conspiracy against him. On October 1, 2004 the Supreme Court of India served a notice to Yadav and his wife, Rabri Devi, on fodder scam. This was in response to a petition, which alleged that they have been interfering with Late in the investigation. Since Laloo Yadav is currently a member of the Union Government at Delhi, the CBI has been accused of dragging it's feet on the issue.

Comment by syed asifimam kakvi on September 14, 2010 at 10:50pm: kiya bat hai

Comment by Abhishek on September 14, 2010 at 12:40pm: He is an astute leader. He helped resurrect his persona, maligned to the hilt in the state, through central ministry.

Comment by Nazre Imam on September 14, 2010 at 4:45am: Personally i dnt support any political party, i posted this blog just to inform people about Lalu Prasad yadav.

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