Tej Pratap Yadav (born 16 April 1988) is an Indian politician and cabinet minister of Environment, Forest & Climate Change Department in the

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. He was MLA of

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from the

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constituency as a member of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) from 2015 to 2020. Tej Pratap Yadav is the elder son of former

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s of Bihar,

Lalu Prasad Yadav Lalu Prasad Yadav (born 11 June 1948) is an Indian politician and president of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD). He is a former Chief Minister of Bihar (1990-1997), a former Railway Minister of India (2004-2009), and a former Member of Parliame ...

and

Rabri Devi Rabri Devi Yadav (born 1 January 1955) is an Indian politician who formerly served three terms as the Chief Minister of Bihar, the first and only woman till date to have held the office. She is a Member of Bihar Legislative Council (MLC), and ...

Early life

Tej Pratap Yadav was born on 16 April 1988 in

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. He is the elder son among the seven daughters and two sons of two former Chief Ministers of Bihar,

and his wife

. His 7 sisters are

Misa Bharti Misa Bharti (born 22 May 1976) is an Indian politician from the state of Bihar and the daughter of Lalu Prasad Yadav and Rabri Devi. In 2014, she unsuccessfully contested the Pataliputra Lok Sabha constituency and lost to RJD rebel Ram Kri ...

, Rohini, Chanda, Ragini, Hema, Anushka and Raj Lakshmi Yadav.

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is his younger brother. Described as "Behrupiya (a man of many disguises)", he was said to be "turning spiritual and loves to wander around aimlessly." In 2018, he was seen "overlooking a large herd of cattle in Barsana at the Mataji Goshala, said to be one of the largest cow shelters in the world with over 25,000 cows."

Personal life

He was married to Aishwarya Rai, daughter of Chandrika Roy and granddaughter of Bihar's ex-Chief Minister Daroga Prasad Rai. He has been accused by his wife of beating her and using drugs, and also of cross-dressing. According to the

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report, one of his grouses against his wife is that "she has not been able to adjust to his way of life."

Political career

He became a Cabinet Minister of Health in

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's government from November 2015 until July 2017. In December 2015, as the Environment Minister of Bihar, he promoted horse-riding as an initiative to curb pollution in the state. The marital discord between Yadav and Aishwarya Rai, daughter of Chandrika Roy, resulted into political "subplot in fight for Parsa seat" of Bihar Assembly, in 2020. Aishwarya also urged the public to vote for CM

, who is a key political rival of her husband's family.

Controversy

In 2017, Tej Pratap Yadav threatened to skin Prime Minister

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alive after

Lalu Prasad Lalu Prasad Yadav (born 11 June 1948) is an Indian politician and president of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD). He is a former Chief Minister of Bihar (1990-1997), a former Railway Minister of India (2004-2009), and a former Member of Parliam ...

's security was downgraded from Z+ to Z. Lalu defended his son over this. On the last day of voting in the 2019 general elections, a video of an alleged assault on a video journalist by his bodyguards went viral, while Yadav lodged an FIR calling it a conspiracy to kill him.

References

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