Ram Sahaya Prasad Yadav (born 24 July 1971) is a Nepalese politician who has been the 3rd

Vice President of Nepal The vice president of Nepal (, ''Nēpālako uparāṣṭrapati'') is the deputy to the president of Nepal. The position was created when the Nepalese monarchy was abolished in May 2008. The current vice-president of Nepal is Ram Sahaya Yadav. ...

since 2023. Prior to his tenure as vice president he was a member of the Federal Parliament of Nepal from 2018 to 2023, and Minister for Forest and Environment from 2022 to 2023.

Early life and education

Ram Sahaya Prasad Yadav was born on 24 July 1971, in Baswariya Tole, Nepal, to Sihwa Devi Yadav and Prasad Ray Yadav. Yadav is a member of the

Madheshi people Madheshi people () is a term used for several ethnic groups in Nepal living in the Terai region of Nepal. It has also been used as a political pejorative term by the Pahari people of Nepal to refer to Nepalis with a non-Nepali language as ...

and his family were farmers. He was educated at the Shree Nepal National Primary School in the Basbariya Rural Municipality and the Shree Janata Lower Secondary School in Kachorwa. He passed the science and mathematics I.S.C. at Bihar Intermediate Education Council in 1990. He graduated with a

bachelor of science A Bachelor of Science (BS, BSc, B.S., B.Sc., SB, or ScB; from the Latin ') is a bachelor's degree that is awarded for programs that generally last three to five years. The first university to admit a student to the degree of Bachelor of Scienc ...

degree from SLK College in 1993, and a

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degree from Thakur Ram Multiple Campus in 1998.

Career

From 1991 to 2008, Yadav worked as a science and mathematics teacher at the Shree Pannadevi Kanya Secondary School in

Kalaiya Kalaiya is a sub-metropolitan city and serves as the headquarters of Bara District in Madhesh Province, Nepal. At the time of the 2021 Nepal census The 2021 Nepal Census was the twelfth nationwide census of Nepal conducted by the Central B ...

. Yadav joined the

Nepal Sadbhawana Party The Nepal Sadbhavana Party (NSP; ) was a political party in Nepal that worked for rights of the Madhesi people and discriminated communities and groups of Nepal. On 21 April 2017, the party merged with Tarai Madhes Loktantrik Party, Sadbhavana ...

(NSP) in 1990. He attended the 3rd, 4th, and 5th conventions of the NSP. He was the first chair of the

Madheshi Jana Adhikar Forum, Nepal The Madhesi Jana Adhikar Forum, Nepal (MJFN), or the Madhesi People's Rights Forum, Nepal, was a political party in Nepal. It was initially not a political party as such but a political advocacy movement demanding ethnic self-determination rights ...

(MJFN). The

Federal Socialist Party Federal Socialist Party () was a political party of Nepal led by Ashok Rai formed in 2012. History Ashok Rai, who was the vice-chair of CPN (UML) and Rajendra Prasad Shrestha, a central committee member of the party, broke away from the CPN (UM ...

and MJFN merged to form the

Federal Socialist Forum, Nepal The Federal Socialist Forum, Nepal (; abbreviated FSFN) was a democratic socialist political party in Nepal. The party came into being on 15 June 2015 with the merger of the Madhesi Jana Adhikar Forum, Nepal, the Federal Socialist Party Nepal a ...

(FSFN), which Yadav was general secretary of in 2015. In the 2008 election Yadav won a seat in the

1st Nepalese Constituent Assembly The first Nepalese Constituent Assembly was a unicameral body of 601 members that served from May 28, 2008, to May 28, 2012. It was formed as a result of the first Constituent Assembly election held on April 10, 2008. The Constituent Assembly ( ...

, but did not win a seat in the

2nd Nepalese Constituent Assembly The Second Constituent Assembly of Nepal, later converted to the Legislature Parliament (), was a unicameral legislature of Nepal. It was elected in the 2013 Constituent Assembly elections after the failure of the first Constituent Assembly (CA ...

. In the 2017 election Yadav was elected to the 1st session of the Federal Parliament of Nepal from Bara 2 after defeating

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nominee Radhe Chandra Yadav. He won reelection in

2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

. Prime Minister

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selected Yadav to serve as Minister for Forest and Environment in his cabinet. Yadav won the vice-presidency in the 2023 election as the nominee of the

People's Socialist Party, Nepal People's Socialist Party may refer to: * People's Socialist Party (Yugoslavia) * People's Socialist Party of Montenegro * People's Socialist Party (Spain) * People's Socialist Party (Chile) * People's Socialist Party (Argentina) * People's Socialis ...

(PSP-N).

Personal life

Yadav married Champa Devi Yadav, with whom he had three children.

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