Shivpal Singh Yadav

Shivpal Singh Yadav
Member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Assumed office
17 October 1996
Preceded byMulayam Singh Yadav
ConstituencyJaswantnagar
Cabinet Minister in Uttar Pradesh Government
In office
15 March 2012 – 24 October 2016
In office
6 September 2003[1] – 11 May 2007
State president, SP in Uttar Pradesh
In office
13 September 2016 – 1 January 2017
Preceded byAkhilesh Yadav
Succeeded byNaresh Uttam Patel
In office
6 January 2009 – 4 June 2009[2]
Preceded byRam Sharan Das
Succeeded byAkhilesh Yadav
Uttar Pradesh state Incharge in Samajwadi Party
In office
12 April 2016[3] – 13 September 2016
Preceded byPosition opened
Succeeded byPosition closed
Leader of the Opposition, Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
In office
26 May 2009 – 9 March 2012
Preceded byMulayam Singh Yadav
Succeeded bySwami Prasad Maurya
President of Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohiya)
In office
28 August 2018 – 10 December 2022
Preceded byposition established
Succeeded byposition abolished
Personal details
Born (1955-02-16) 16 February 1955 (age 69)
Saifai, Uttar Pradesh, India
Political party Samajwadi Party (until 2017; 2022-present)
Other political
affiliations		Independent (2017-2018), Samajwadi Secular Morcha (2018) and Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohiya) (2018-2022)
Spouse
Sarla Yadav
​
(m. 1981)​
RelationsMulayam Singh Yadav (brother)
Ram Gopal Yadav (cousin)
Akhilesh Yadav (nephew)
Dimple Yadav (Daughter in law)
Dharmendra Yadav (nephew)
Akshay Yadav (nephew)
Tej Pratap Singh Yadav (grand-nephew)
Aditya Yadav (son)
Children2 (1 son & 1 daughter), Including Aditya Yadav (politician)
Parents
  • Sughar Singh Yadav (father)
  • Murti Devi (mother)
Residence(s)Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
Alma materK.K. P.G. College, Etawah
Kanpur University (B.A., 1976),
Lucknow Christian College
University of Lucknow (B.P.Ed., 1977)[4]

Shivpal Singh Yadav (born 16 February 1955) is a politician and educationist from Uttar Pradesh, India. He was born in Saifai village, Etawah district, and is a younger brother of Samajwadi Party leader late Mulayam Singh Yadav and uncle of the former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Akhilesh Yadav. He is a Member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly, representing the Jaswantnagar seat in Etawah district, from 1996 till now. He is also the National General Secretary of Samajwadi Party and was appointed on 29 January 2023.

In 2018 he founded his own party named Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohiya), which was merged into Samajwadi Party in 2022.[5]

  1. ^ "मुलायम मंत्रिमंडल का विस्तार | BBC Hindi". Archived from the original on 19 September 2016. Retrieved 21 August 2016.
  2. ^ "यूपी: अखिलेश को सपा की कमान". 4 June 2009.
  3. ^ "शिवपाल का कद बढ़ा, बने सपा के यूपी प्रभारी". News18 Hindi.
  4. ^ "Shivpal Singh Yadav(Samajwadi Party(SP)):Constituency- JASWANTNAGAR(ETAWAH) - Affidavit Information of Candidate".
  5. ^ "State elections 2007 result". Retrieved 5 March 2012.