Uday Pratap Singh Yadav (born 18 May 1932) is an Indian politician of the

Samajwadi Party The Samajwadi Party ( SP; ) is a Socialism, socialist political party in India. It was founded on 4 October 1992 by former Janata Dal politician Mulayam Singh Yadav and is headquartered in New Delhi. It is the third-largest political party in ...

in India who represented the state of

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in the

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between 2002 and 2008. He was a member of the

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from 1989–1996.

Early life and family

Singh was born on 18 May 1932 to Harihar Singh Chaudhary and Puspa Yadav at Garhiya in what is now

Mainpuri district Mainpuri district () is one of the Districts of Uttar Pradesh, districts in the Agra division of Uttar Pradesh, India. Mainpuri town is the district headquarters. It consists of six tehsils, namely Mainpuri, Bhongaon, Karhal, Kishni, Kuraoli, K ...

, Uttar Pradesh. His family were comfortably-off civil servants. After obtaining MA degrees in English and in Hindi from St. John's College,

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, he became an English lecturer the Jain Inter-College,

Karhal Karhal is a town and Nagar Panchayat in Mainpuri district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is also a tehsil that is subdivided into two blocks, Karhal and Barnahal. It is one of the Vidhan Sabha constituency of Uttar Pradesh. The nea ...

in 1958. There he taught the future leader of the Samajwadi Party,

Mulayam Singh Yadav Mulayam Singh Yadav (22 November 1939 – 10 October 2022) was an Indian politician, a socialism, socialist figure and founder of the Samajwadi Party. Over the course of his political career spanning more than six decades, he served for three t ...

. He married Chaitanya Yadav on 20 May 1958 and has a son and three daughters. His wife predeceased him. His Son Dr.Asim Yadav Who is, a close aide of

Akhilesh Yadav Akhilesh Yadav (; born 1 July 1973) is an Indian politician and national president of the Samajwadi Party who served as the 20th Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. Having assumed the chief minister's office on 15 March 2012 at the age of 38, he ...

has won Legislative Council Election On

Ticket in 2015 From Agra Graduate Zone.

Career

Singh has been a member of the

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political party (1989–91), the

Samajwadi Janata Party Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya) (SJP(R)) was an Indian political party founded by Chandra Shekhar, who served as prime minister of the country from 1990 to 1991. He led the party until his death on 8 July 2007. At the time of his death, he was ...

(1991–92) and, since 1992, the Samajwadi Party. He was elected as a member of the

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(1989–91) and

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s (1991-1996) was a member of the

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, a department of the

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from November 2002. His elections were from the Mainpuri constituency, which he subsequently gave up in

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to allow his friend and former pupil, Mulayam Singh Yadav, to stand. Singh was elected to the Rajya Sabha in January 2003 and retired on 25 November 2008. Aside from various parliamentary committees, he has also been a member of educational bodies, including the board of management of

Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University (informally known as BBAU) is a Central University situated in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. The university is named after B. R. Ambedkar, social reformer, polymath and the architect of the Indian Constitution ...

, a position to which he was appointed in 2006. Following the appointment of

, the son of Mulayam, as

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, he was given a ministerial portfolio. Subsequently, in early 2017, it was suggested that Singh was siding with Akhilesh during a Yadav family squabble for control of the Samajwadi Party in which he was pitted against his father. Singh is interested in Hindi poetry and promotion of Indian languages generally. Himself a Hindi poet, he has attended

kavi sammelan A ''Kavi Sammelan'' (Devanagari:कवि सम्मेलन, Nastaliq: کوی سمملان, ''Kavī Sammelan'') is a traditional gathering of poets in the Hindi Belt region of northern India, where poets recite their poetry before each other a ...

s both in India and elsewhere. He has composed election songs for the Samajwadi Party and paeans to its leader, Mulayam Singh Yadav. He is the chairperson of Uttar Pradesh

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and has been recognised with a

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award. He has been the National President of the

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References

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