Shivpal Singh Yadav

Shivpal Singh Yadav
Member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Assumed office 17 October 1996
Preceded by	Mulayam Singh Yadav
Constituency	Jaswantnagar
Cabinet Minister in Uttar Pradesh Government
In office 15 March 2012 – 24 October 2016
In office 6 September 2003 – 11 May 2007
State president, SP in Uttar Pradesh
In office 13 September 2016 – 1 January 2017
Preceded by	Akhilesh Yadav
Succeeded by	Naresh Uttam Patel
In office 6 January 2009 – 4 June 2009
Preceded by	Ram Sharan Das
Succeeded by	Akhilesh Yadav
Uttar Pradesh state Incharge in Samajwadi Party
In office 12 April 2016 – 13 September 2016
Preceded by	Position opened
Succeeded by	Position closed
Leader of the Opposition, Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
In office 26 May 2009 – 9 March 2012
Preceded by	Mulayam Singh Yadav
Succeeded by	Swami Prasad Maurya
President of Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohiya)
In office 28 August 2018 – 10 December 2022
Preceded by	position established
Succeeded by	position abolished
Personal details
Born	(1955-02-16) 16 February 1955 Saifai, Uttar Pradesh, India
Political party	Samajwadi Party (until 2017; 2022-present)
Other political affiliations	Independent (2017-2018), Samajwadi Secular Morcha (2018) and Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohiya) (2018-2022)
Spouse	Sarla Yadav ​ (m. 1981)​
Relations	Mulayam Singh Yadav (brother) Ram Gopal Yadav (cousin) Akhilesh Yadav (nephew) Dimple Yadav (Daughter in law) Dharmendra Yadav (nephew) Akshay Yadav (nephew) Tej Pratap Singh Yadav (grand-nephew) Aditya Yadav (son)
Children	2 (1 son & 1 daughter), Including Aditya Yadav (politician)
Parents	Sughar Singh Yadav (father) Murti Devi (mother)
Residence(s)	Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
Alma mater	K.K. P.G. College, Etawah Kanpur University (B.A., 1976), Lucknow Christian College University of Lucknow (B.P.Ed., 1977)

Shivpal Singh Yadav (born 16 February 1955) is a politician and educationist from Uttar Pradesh, India. He was born in Saifai village, Etawah district, and is a younger brother of Samajwadi Party leader late Mulayam Singh Yadav and uncle of the former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Akhilesh Yadav. He is a Member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly, representing the Jaswantnagar seat in Etawah district, from 1996 till now. He is also the National General Secretary of Samajwadi Party and was appointed on 29 January 2023.

In 2018 he founded his own party named Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohiya), which was merged into Samajwadi Party in 2022.

Early life and education

Shivpal Singh Yadav was born in Saifai village, Etawah district in 1955 to Sughar Singh Yadav and Murti Devi. He has studied in Kanpur University's K.K. P.G. College, Etawah and University of Lucknow's Lucknow Christian College and earned BA (1976) and BPEd (1977) degrees respectively.

Family

See also: Political families of Uttar Pradesh

Shivpal is the youngest among 5 brothers. Ratan Singh Yadav, Mulayam Singh Yadav, Abhay Ram Yadav and Rajpal Singh Yadav are his elder brothers. He has 1 sister Kamla Devi Yadav.

Rajya Sabha MP Ram Gopal Yadav and his sister Geeta Yadav are his cousins.

Career

Shivpal Singh Yadav is the MLA from the Jaswantnagar constituency since 1996.

Yadav was the leader of Opposition in Uttar Pradesh Assembly since 2007 during the Mayawati regime.

Positions held

Shivpal Singh Yadav has served 6 times as MLA. He had lost the 17th Lok Sabha election from Firozabad in 2019.

#	From	To	Position	Party
1.	1996	2002	MLA (1st term) from Jaswantnagar	SP
2.	2002	2007	MLA (2nd term) from Jaswantnagar	SP
3.	2007	2012	MLA (3rd term) from Jaswantnagar	SP
4.	2012	2017	MLA (4th term) from Jaswantnagar	SP
5.	2017	2022	MLA (5th term) from Jaswantnagar	SP
6.	2022	Present	MLA (6th term) from Jaswantnagar	SP

Personal life

Shivpal Singh Yadav is married to Mrs. Sarla Yadav since 1981 and they have a son Aditya Yadav and daughter Dr. Anubha Yadav. Anubha Yadav is married to Ajay Yadav who is an IAS officer of 2010 batch and Tamil Nadu cadre.

Educational organizations

He established schools named S.S. Memorial Senior Secondary Public School, Saifai and Sughar Singh Memorial Shiksha Niketan Inter College, Saifai in 1990s, in the memory of his father. He is manager of colleges named Chaudhary Charan Singh Post Graduate College and Chaudhary Charan Singh College of Law, both colleges established by his elder brother Mulayam Singh Yadav. He also established a teachers' training college named S.S. Memorial Educational Academy, Saifai in 2012, a degree college named S.S. Memorial Mahavidyalaya, Takha in 2013 and a pharmacy diploma college named S.S. Memorial College of Pharmacy, Saifai in 2023. As of September 2023, he is manager of 6 schools and 5 colleges, which include one CBSE Board school, 5 State Board schools, 2 multidisciplinary (degree/post graduate) colleges, one law college, one teachers' training college and one pharmacy diploma college.