Jagadambi Prasad Yadav

Jagadambi Prasad Yadav
Minister of State for Commerce & Industry
In office
26 January 1979 – 28 July 1979
Prime MinisterMorarji Desai
MinisterGeorge Fernandes
Minister of State for Health & Family Welfare
In office
14 August 1977 – 26 January 1979
Prime MinisterMorarji Desai
MinisterRaj Narain
Morarji Desai
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
In office
1996–2002
Preceded bySuraj Mandal
Succeeded byPradeep Yadav
ConstituencyGodda
In office
1977–1980
Preceded byJagdish Mandal
Succeeded byMaulana Saminuddin
ConstituencyGodda
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
In office
3 April 1982 – 2 April 1988
ConstituencyBihar
In office
3 April 1968 – 2 April 1974
ConstituencyBihar
President of Bharatiya Janata Party, Bihar
In office
1981–1984
Preceded byKailashpati Mishra
Personal details
Born(1925-01-01)1 January 1925
Munger, Bihar and Orissa Province, British India
Died20 July 2002(2002-07-20) (aged 77)
Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
Political partyBharatiya Janata Party
SpouseJanaki Devi
Children8
EducationB.A.
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Jagadambi Prasad Yadav was a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and a minister of state Health and Family Welfare from 1977 to 1979 and then minister of state Commerce and Industry in the Morarji Desai Government of India. He was elected to Lok Sabha from Godda in Jharkhand. At the time of his death in 2002, he was Convenor of the Parliamentary Committee on Official Languages. He was President of Bharatiya Jana Sangh in Bihar as well as Bihar Bharatiya Janata Party from 1981 to 1984.