Lalu Prasad Yadav, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Indian politician
Date of Birth: 11-Jun-1948
Place of Birth: Gopalganj, Bihar, Bihar, India
Profession: politician
Nationality: India
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
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About Lalu Prasad Yadav
- Lalu Prasad Yadav (born 11 June 1948) is an Indian politician from the state of Bihar.
- He is the president of the Rashtriya Janata Dal, former chief minister of Bihar, former UPA minister of railways, and former member of Parliament of the 15th Lok Sabha. He entered politics at Patna University as a student leader and was elected as then youngest member of the Lok Sabha in 1977 as a Janata Party candidate at the age of 29.
- He became the chief minister of Bihar in 1990 but had to resign in 1997 following escalating corruption charges relating to the Fodder Scam.
- From 1997 to 2005 his wife Rabri Devi ruled as the Chief Minister of the state.
- His party came to power in 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election in partnership with Nitish Kumar of JD(U), but Nitish Kumar dumped Lalu's party from the power in July 2017 after the Enforcement Directorate and CBI lodged several criminal cases against Lalu, his wife Rabri, his son and former deputy chief minister, Tejashwi Yadav, in another disproportionate assets and railway tender bribery scam during Lalu's stint as the Railway Minister.On 3 October 2013, he was sentenced to five years of rigorous imprisonment and ?25 lakh (US$36,000) fine for his role in the first Fodder Scam by the CBI court, then again for 3.5 years in a second fodder scam case on the same day, 23 December 2017 when his member of parliament daughter Misa Bharti was also officially charged by Enforcement Directorate in disproportionate assets, while 3 more fodder scam cases against him are also pending in the court.
- Yadav was found guilty in third fodder scam case in January, 2018.
- In March, 2018, the Special CBI Court convicted him in the fourth fodder scam case which is related to swindling of Rs.
- 3.13 crore from the Dumka treasury.
- In the Dumka Treasury case a total of Rs 60 lakh fine imposed (Rs 30 lakh under PC act and Rs 30 lakh under IPC) and 14 years' imprisonment (7 years under IPC and 7 years under Prevention of Corruption Act) was sentenced on Lalu Prasad Yadav in to run consecutively.
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