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Since 1989, he has served several terms as minister in the state government, Member of Parliament from [[Rajya Sabha]] and [[Lok Sabha]] and MLA. He is also the President of NUBC (National union of Backward Class, SC and ST).{{citation needed|date=October 2011}}
Since 1989, he has served several terms as minister in the state government, Member of Parliament from [[Rajya Sabha]] and [[Lok Sabha]] and MLA. He is also the President of NUBC (National union of Backward Class, SC and ST).{{citation needed|date=October 2011}}


His wife Umlesh Yadav was also an MLA from Uttar Pradesh but was disqualified by the [[Election Commission of India]] in October 2011 for not declaring election expenses. His nephew, Jitendra Yadav, is MLC from Uttar Pradesh. He used to live in Vasant Vihar farm house, [[New delhi]] before getting life imprisonment in Bhati murder case.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.firstpost.com/india/bhati-murder-case-dp-yadav-3-others-awarded-life-term-2146325.html|title = Bhati murder case: DP Yadav, 3 others awarded life term-India News , Firstpost|date = 10 March 2015}}</ref>
His wife Umlesh Yadav was also an MLA from Uttar Pradesh but was disqualified by the [[Election Commission of India]] in October 2011 for not declaring election expenses. His nephew, Jitendra Yadav, is MLC from Uttar Pradesh. He used to live in Vasant Vihar farm house.


His family's declared assets of Rs. 26 crore &nbsp;makes them one of the richest political families in Uttar Pradesh.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/at-rs-26-cr-d-p-yadav-could-be-ups-richest/27094/ |title=At Rs 26 cr, D P Yadav could be UP's richest political family |work=Indian Express|date=31 March 2007 |access-date=21 October 2011}}</ref> These are only his declared assets&nbsp;– his fortune is estimated to be well over Rs. 500 crores.<ref name="tehelka.com">{{cite news |url=http://www.tehelka.com/story_main23.asp?filename=Ne121606_I_am_CS.asp |title=I am DP, Don |first=Vineet |last=Khare |publisher=Tehelka |date=16 December 2006 |access-date=21 October 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716203303/http://www.tehelka.com/story_main23.asp?filename=Ne121606_I_am_CS.asp |archive-date=16 July 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
His family's declared assets of Rs. 26 crore &nbsp;makes them one of the richest political families in Uttar Pradesh.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/at-rs-26-cr-d-p-yadav-could-be-ups-richest/27094/ |title=At Rs 26 cr, D P Yadav could be UP's richest political family |work=Indian Express|date=31 March 2007 |access-date=21 October 2011}}</ref> These are only his declared assets&nbsp;– his fortune is estimated to be well over Rs. 500 crores.<ref name="tehelka.com">{{cite news |url=http://www.tehelka.com/story_main23.asp?filename=Ne121606_I_am_CS.asp |title=I am DP, Don |first=Vineet |last=Khare |publisher=Tehelka |date=16 December 2006 |access-date=21 October 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716203303/http://www.tehelka.com/story_main23.asp?filename=Ne121606_I_am_CS.asp |archive-date=16 July 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

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Dharam Pal Singh Yadav also known as D.P. Yadav is an Indian politician and a former cabinet minister in the Government of Uttar Pradesh. He is often referred to with epithets such as "Bahubali", a term that according to him is a noble term but often used miss appropriately by many.[1] [2] He was an MLA (member of the state legislature) four times (three times from Bulandshahr and once from Sahaswan) and also an MP (member of parliament) twice (representing Sambhal in both the Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha). His wife and Umlesh Yadav, was MLA from Bisauli. His nephew is currently Member of Legislative Council (MLC) from Badaun.

Inspired to join politics from the very early days of his life, Yadav befriended Mulayam Singh Yadav and contested Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections held in 1989 on the Samajwadi Party’s ticket.[3] He won the election and became a cabinet minister under the Chief Ministership of Mulayam Singh Yadav. Later he changed gears and joined BJP to contest 2004 general elections.[4] BJP fielded him from the Sambhal constituency of Uttar Pradesh. He won the election and became a member of the Parliament of India.[5]

In 2007, he formed the party Rashtriya Parivartan Dal, and two members were elected to the state legislature — himself from Sahaswan, and his wife Umlesh Yadav from Bisauli.[6] Thereafter, he joined Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party and ran in the Indian General Election of 2009, but he lost. He left BSP just before the Assembly Elections in 2012, sensing a tide against BSP. He contested the election as a candidate of his own party but lost.

Life

D.P. Yadav comes from a farming family from the village of sarfabad in Noida of Uttar Pradesh. A son of farmer Tejpal Yadav, he ran a dairy in Jagdish Nagar.[7]

Yadav owns numerous businesses, including sugar and paper mills, distilleries and other alcohol-related enterprises, hotels and resorts, a television channel, power projects, mines and construction companies.[citation needed] He also owns a college for girls in his native village and is a manager of SK Inter College in Garhi Chaukhandi, Noida.[citation needed] He has two sons and two daughters.[citation needed]

Since 1989, he has served several terms as minister in the state government, Member of Parliament from Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha and MLA. He is also the President of NUBC (National union of Backward Class, SC and ST).[citation needed]

His wife Umlesh Yadav was also an MLA from Uttar Pradesh but was disqualified by the Election Commission of India in October 2011 for not declaring election expenses. His nephew, Jitendra Yadav, is MLC from Uttar Pradesh. He used to live in Vasant Vihar farm house.

His family's declared assets of Rs. 26 crore  makes them one of the richest political families in Uttar Pradesh.[8] These are only his declared assets – his fortune is estimated to be well over Rs. 500 crores.[7]

Criminal charges

Yadav became a bootlegger and entered the illegal country liquor trade as a protégé of ex-MLA Mahendra Singh Bhati in the late 1970s. Bhati was then the block pramukh (village council chief) in Ghaziabad. The first criminal charge against Yadav was registered in 1979 in the Kavi Nagar police station of Ghaziabad.[9]

He has been charged in nine murder cases,[10] three cases of attempted murder, two cases of dacoity, many cases of kidnapping for extortion, as well as various crimes under the Excise Act, Gangsters' Act, and even the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities Act. The cases were filed in the districts of Ghaziabad, Modinagar, Bulandshahr, Moradabad, Badayun, in western Uttar Pradesh, and in Jind and Sirsa districts in Haryana. In one of the cases filed against him in Haryana in the early 1990s, illicit liquor supplied by him was responsible for the death of 350 people.[11][9]

During the BJP regime of chief minister Kalyan Singh, he was arrested under the National Security Act. In 1992 he was accused by the Central Bureau of Investigation of murdering his erstwhile mentor, Bhati, who was at the time MLA for Dadri.[10]

In March 2015, DP Yadav was sentenced to life in the Bhati murder case[12] and was imprisoned in Dehradun jail.[13] On 10 November 2021, Uttarakhand High Court acquitted former him due to lack of evidence in the murder of Former MLA Narendra Bhati.[14]

Political career

In 1989, DP Yadav joined hands with Mulayam Singh Yadav, who offered him a candidacy from Bulandshahr under his Samajwadi Party. He won and became the minister for Panchayati Raj.[15]

In 2004, Atal Bihari Vajpayee who has an otherwise clean image, faced considerable criticism for having inducted DP Yadav into his Bharatiya Janata Party, under which Yadav served on Indian Parliament's house of elders, the Rajya Sabha.[11] Eventually, BJP terminated their relationship with Yadav after four days of media furor.[citation needed]

In 2007, he formed the Rashtriya Parivartan Dal with his wife. They were the only candidates, and both won in the 2007 Uttar Pradesh State Assembly Elections – he from Sahaswan, she from Bisauli, both in western Uttar Pradesh district of Badaun. Later on, he merged his Rashtriya Parivartan Dal into Mayawati's BSP.[citation needed]

In the 2009 Indian general elections, Yadav joined hands with Mayawati of the Bahujan Samaj Party and fought elections from Badaun, but lost by 33,000 votes to Dharmendra Yadav, nephew of Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav.

Just before the Uttar Pradesh Assembly 2012 elections, DP Yadav left BSP and wanted to join Samajwadi Party but was snubbed.[16] He fought the election as a candidate of his own party in Sahaswan constituency and was defeated. His political party did not win any seats.

References

  1. ^ http://www.dailyexcelsior.com/web1/09may22/national.htm [permanent dead link]
  2. ^ "India Today". Archived from the original on 20 November 2008. Retrieved 19 January 2010.
  3. ^ "'Pride of Kunda' or 'gunda'? Why 6-term MLA Raja Bhaiya is still a political force in UP". ThePrint. 5 March 2022. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  4. ^ "General Elections 2004 - Partywise Comparision for 5-Sambhal Constituency of UTTAR PRADESH". affidavitarchive.eci.nic.in. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  5. ^ "Uttarakhand high court acquits former MP DP Yadav in 1992 murder case". Hindustan Times. 10 November 2021. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  6. ^ "Uttarakhand high court acquits former MP DP Yadav in 1992 murder case". Hindustan Times. 10 November 2021. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  7. ^ a b Khare, Vineet (16 December 2006). "I am DP, Don". Tehelka. Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 21 October 2011.
  8. ^ "At Rs 26 cr, D P Yadav could be UP's richest political family". Indian Express. 31 March 2007. Retrieved 21 October 2011.
  9. ^ a b Pradhan, Sharat (25 February 2004). "Who is D P Yadav? A Dossier". Rediff.com. Retrieved 19 October 2006.
  10. ^ a b When history sheet covered saffron carpet
  11. ^ a b Ramachandran, Sudha (28 February 2004). "India: The crime of politics". Asia Times. Archived from the original on 19 March 2004. Retrieved 19 October 2006.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) Illicit liquor supplied by Yadav was responsible for the death of around 350 persons who consumed it.
  12. ^ "Former MP DP Yadav sentenced to life imprisonment". Times of India. 11 March 2015.
  13. ^ Singh, S.P.; Manoj, Kumar (11 March 2015). "23 years after Bhati's death, DP Yadav gets life term". Daily Pioneer. Retrieved 21 October 2016.
  14. ^ "Uttarakhand high court acquits former MP DP Yadav in 1992 murder case". 10 November 2021.
  15. ^ "Who is D P Yadav? A Dossier - Rediff.com".
  16. ^ "West UP don back in Samajwadi Party - Times Of India". The Times Of India. Retrieved 25 April 2014.