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Lalu Prasad Yadav

Lalu Prasad (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 Parliament (MP) of the Lok Sabha & Rajya Sabha.

He entered politics at Patna University as a student leader and in 1977, was elected as one of the youngest member of the Lok Sabha for the Bharatiya Lok Dal of Janata Alliance. He became the chief minister of Bihar in 1990. His party came to power in 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election in partnership with Nitish Kumar of JD(U). This coalition ended when Nitish resigned and RJD was ousted, becoming the opposition party.

In 2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, RJD remained the single largest party in Bihar, and along with JD(U) in power after JD(U) rejoined MGB in 2022, headed the government until JD(U) returned to NDA.

Lalu was convicted in the controversial Fodder Scam, and was serving a term until 17 April 2021, when he was granted bail from the High Court. Provided by Wikipedia