Umakant Yadav (born 3 February 1954) is an

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for the Machhlishahr (Lok Sabha Constituency) in

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. He is the elder brother of Ramakant Yadav. He is among the most well known politicians in

Purvanchal Purvanchal () is the region of eastern Uttar Pradesh. Purvanchal is also a proposed state in India, encompassing 32 eastern districts of Uttar Pradesh. The proposal, introduced in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly in 2011 by then Chief ...

(East U. P.).

Political career

He was elected MLA for the first time in

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from Khuthan assembly constituency of Jaunpur as a BSP candidate, then in

1993 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election Legislative Assembly elections were held in Uttar Pradesh in 1993. The Bharatiya Janata Party remained the largest party, winning 174 of the 425 seats. Results Elected members References *http://www.elections.in/uttar-pradesh/assembly-con ...

he was elected MLA from the alliance of

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 ...

and

Bahujan Samaj Party The Bahujan Samaj Party ( BSP) is a political party in India that was formed to represent Bahujans (literally means "community in majority"), referring to Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and Other Backward Classes (OBC), along with Religious ...

. When the alliance broke in 1995, he came closer to the Samajwadi Party.In

1996 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election Legislative Assembly elections were held in Uttar Pradesh in 1996. The Bharatiya Janata Party remained the largest party, winning 174 of the 425 seats. Result Government Formation The elections led to a hung assembly, and a further period ...

, he contested on a Samajwadi Party ticket and was elected for the third consecutive time from Khuthan assembly constituency. while being an SP MLA, he was accused of usurping the land of a relative of Samajwadi Party Maharashtra president

Abu Asim Azmi Abu Asim Azmi (born 8 August 1955) is a member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. He represents the Mankhurd Shivaji Nagar Constituency, Mumbai. He belongs to the Samajwadi Party. He is the President of the Maharashtra state branch of ...

so Samajwadi Party did not give him a ticket in the 2002 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, he contested from the JDU- BJP alliance but lost the election to Shailendra Yadav Lalai of BSP. Before the 2004 general elections, he again returned to the

and was elected as a member of the Lok Sabha as a BSP candidate from Machhlishahr Lok Sabha constituency, defeating the then Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha Speaker Keshari Nath Tripathi. During the

2004 Indian general election General elections were held in India in four phases between 20 April and 10 May 2004. Over 670 million people were eligible to vote, electing 543 members of the 14th Lok Sabha. Seven states also held assembly elections to elect state governmen ...

, He was in jail but won the Lok Sabha election. In 2007, when he was a BSP MP, the then Chief Minister

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called him to her residence and got him arrested by the then U.P.Police DGP Vikram Singh.

Criminal Cases

He is considered a Bahubali (strongman) leader of Purvanchal, a total of 37 criminal cases including Gangster are registered against him. In 2022, a Jaunpur court sentenced him to life imprisonment in the Shahpur case, in which he was accused of attacking the Shahpur railway police Chauki, firing and killing a railway police constable to free his driver Rajkumar. In 2023, the court framed charges against him and his brother Ramakant Yadav in a 25-year-old case in which they were accused of firing and attacking BSP candidate Akbar Ahmad Dumpy during the 1998 Lok Sabha elections.

References

External links

Official biographical sketch in Parliament of India website
1954 births Politicians from Azamgarh district Living people People from Azamgarh India MPs 2004–2009 Bahujan Samaj Party politicians from Uttar Pradesh Lok Sabha members from Uttar Pradesh People from Jaunpur district {{UttarPradesh-BSP-politician-stub