| Renu Kumari Yadav | |
| Native Name: | रेनु कुमारी यादव |
| Office: | Joint chairman of People's Socialist Party |
| Term Start: | 5 May 2024 |
| Predecessor: | position established |
| Office1: | Minister for Physical Infrastructure and Transportation |
| Term Start1: | 8 October 2021 |
| Term End1: | 4 July 2022 |
| President1: | Bidhya Devi Bhandari |
| Primeminister1: | Sher Bahadur Deuba |
| Predecessor1: | Basanta Kumar Nembwang |
| Successor1: | Mohammad Estiyak Rai |
| Office2: | Minister for Education |
| Term Start2: | 2008 |
| Term End2: | 2009 |
| President2: | Ram Baran Yadav |
| Primeminister2: | Pushpa Kamal Dahal |
| Office3: | Minister for Women, Children and Social Affairs |
| Term Start3: | 2003 |
| Term End3: | 2004 |
| Monarch3: | Birendra of Nepal |
| Primeminister3: | Surya Bahadur Thapa |
| Office4: | Member of Parliament, Pratinidhi Sabha |
| Term Start4: | 4 March 2018 |
| Term End4: | 2023 |
| Term Start5: | May 1999 |
| Term End5: | May 2002 |
| Constituency5: | Saptari 3 |
| Predecessor5: | Anis Ansari |
| Successor5: | Mahesh Prasad Yadav |
| Office6: | Member of Constituent Assembly |
| Term Start6: | 28 May 2008 |
| Term End6: | 28 May 2012 |
| Constituency6: | Saptari 4 |
| Predecessor6: | Jagadish Prasad Sah |
| Successor6: | Tara Kanta Chaudhary |
| Birth Date: | 16 January 1959[1] |
| Birth Place: | Forbesganj, Bihar, India |
| Party: | Independent |
| Otherparty: | Nepali Congress Rastriya Prajatantra Party Rastriya Janashakti Party Madhesi Jana Adhikar Forum, Nepal Federal Socialist Forum, Nepal Samajbadi Party, Nepal People's Socialist Party, Nepal |
| Nationality: | Nepali |
Renu Kumari Yadav (Nepali: रेणु कुमारी यादव) (born 16 January 1959) is a Nepali politician and member of House of Representatives on proportional representation.[2]
She most recently served as the Minister for Physical Infrastructure and Transportation of Nepal in the ruling coalition government led by Prime Minister and Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba.[3] Recently, Yadav resigned from the People's Socialist Party, Nepal.[4]
Yadav was born on June 19, 1963, in Forbesganj, India to Rameshwor Prasad and Chintamani Devi Yadav. She belongs to the Ahir community.[5]
Yadav was elected as a Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) candidate to the Pratinidhi Sabha in the 1999 election from the Saptari 3 constituency.[6] In 2002 she was elected to the central committee of the RPP.[7]
In June 2003, she was named Minister for Women, Children and Social Affairs in the Surya Bahadur Thapa-led cabinet appointed by King Gyanendra.[8] When the RPP was divided and Thapa broke away and formed the Rastriya Janshakti Party, Yadav joined the new RJP.
In February 2008 she resigned from the parliament and left RJP, in support of the Madhesi agitation.[9] [10]
In April 2008, she won the Saptari 4 seat in the Constituent Assembly election as a Madhesi Janadhikar Forum candidate.[11] In late May 2008, she was included in the central committee of MJF.[12] She was subsequently appointed as Minister of Education and sworn in on August 22, 2008.[13]
| Saptari 4 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | ||
| CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist) | Tara Kanta Chaudhary | 8,217 | ||
| Nepali Congress | Dinesh Kumar Yadav | 6,985 | ||
| Madheshi Janaadhikar Forum, Nepal (Democratic) | Satya Narayan Yadav | 4,384 | ||
| Sadbhavana Party | Jismul Khan | 4,141 | ||
| Madhesi Jana Adhikar Forum, Nepal | Renu Kumari Yadav | 3,007 | ||
| Independent | Surya Narayan Mandal | 1,533 | ||
| Rastriya Madhesh Samajbadi Party | Gajendra Kumar Mandal | 1,515 | ||
| Terai Madhesh Loktantrik Party | Puspa Thakur | 1,005 | ||
| Others | 5,996 | |||
| Result | CPN (UML) gain | |||
| Source: NepalNews[21] | ||||
| Saptari 4 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | ||
| Madhesi Jana Adhikar Forum, Nepal | Renu Kumari Yadav | 12,681 | ||
| Nepal Sadbhavana Party (Anandidevi) | Jismul Khan | 7,590 | ||
| Nepali Congress | Dinesh Kumar Yadav | 6,070 | ||
| Sadbhavana Party | Satya Narayan Yadav | 5,344 | ||
| CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist) | Jagadish Prasad Sah | 5,254 | ||
| CPN (Maoist) | Chhedi Safi | 2,899 | ||
| Terai Madhesh Loktantrik Party | Surendra Narayan Mandal | 2,536 | ||
| Dalit Janajati Party | Jagajiwan Ram | 1,966 | ||
| Others | 4,678 | |||
| Invalid votes | 2,974 | |||
| Result | MJFN gain | |||
| Source: Election Commission[22] | ||||
| Saptari 3 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | ||
| Rastriya Prajatantra Party | Renu Kumari Yadav | 17,231 | ||
| CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist) | Suman Raj Pyakurel | 10,910 | ||
| Nepali Congress | Anis Ansari | 10,803 | ||
| Nepal Sadbhawana Party | Surya Narayan Mandal | 10,126 | ||
| Others | 2,699 | |||
| Invalid Votes | 1,914 | |||
| Result | RPP gain | |||
| Source: Election Commission[23] [24] | ||||
| Saptari 3 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | ||
| Nepal Sadbhawana Party | Anis Ansari | 12,743 | ||
| Independent | Surya Narayan Mandal | 8,921 | ||
| Rastriya Prajatantra Party | Renu Kumari Yadav | 6,411 | ||
| Nepali Congress | Dev Narayan Yadav | 5,431 | ||
| CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist) | Jaya Krishna Goit | 5,367 | ||
| Independent | Shiva Prasad Pokharel | 2,590 | ||
| Others | 999 | |||
| Result | NSP gain | |||
| Source: Election Commission | ||||