Sahdev Prasad Yadav

Sahdeo Prasad Yadav was an Indian politician, an excise minister in the Government of Bihar and a member of Bihar Legislative Assembly of India. He represented the Kurtha^[2] constituency in Arwal district of Bihar. He had been a Mukhiya of Chitaukhar-Jalalpur Panchayat for almost 25 years. First he became an MLA (Member of Legislative Assembly) in 1980 while being in Lok Dal party. He was elected in 1995 as a member of Janata Dal.^[3] Yadav started his political career in 1957 as an Independent candidate from Tikari^[4] constituency but lost. Later this constituency named as Konch (Vidhan Sabha constituency), now again becomes Tikari constituency from 2010 onwards. He also fought from here as a candidate of Indian National Congress in 1967 but lost to U. N. Verma of Samyukta Socialist Party and in 1969 lost to Ram Balav Saran Singh.^[5][6]