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Lalu Prasad Yadav

1948 - Today

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Lalu Prasad (born 11 June 1948) is an Indian politician who served as the chief minister of Bihar from 1990 to 1997 with a brief interruption in 1995 and as the union minister for Railways from 2004 to 2009. He is the founder and president of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) a prominent political party in Bihar. He is also a former member of Parliament (MP) of the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha. Lalu Prasad Yadav is often regarded as a political messiah for the lower castes in Bihar, particularly the Other Backward Classes (OBCs), Scheduled Castes (SCs), and Muslim communities. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lalu Prasad Yadav is the 12,837th most popular politician (down from 9,613th in 2019), the 519th most popular biography from India (down from 339th in 2019) and the 165th most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Lalu Prasad Yadav ranks 12,837 out of 19,576. Before him are Liutperga, William IX, Count of Poitiers, Ahmed Khan bin Küchük, José Moñino, 1st Count of Floridablanca, Cai Qi, and Hugo Egmont Hørring. After him are Antiochus III of Commagene, Rhodogune of Parthia, Teres I, Richard, Count of Étampes, Francisco Xavier do Amaral, and Kumaragupta I.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Lalu Prasad Yadav ranks 367. Before him are Claude Le Roy, Calistrat Cuțov, Berry Berenson, Eddie Gray, Carol Potter, and Elias Khoury. After him are Sitiveni Rabuka, David H. Levy, Charlie Scott, Talgat Tadzhuddin, Bernard-Marie Koltès, and Bernhard Russi.

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In India

Among people born in India, Lalu Prasad Yadav ranks 519 out of 1,861. Before him are Guru Har Krishan (1656), Pankaj Kapur (1954), M. S. Subbulakshmi (1916), Dadasaheb Phalke (1870), C. N. Annadurai (1909), and Margaret Murray (1863). After him are Kumaragupta I (400), Fatima Jinnah (1893), Asin (1985), Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916), Ashraf Ali Thanwi (1863), and Puneeth Rajkumar (1975).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Lalu Prasad Yadav ranks 165. Before him are Sanjay Gandhi (1946), N. Chandrababu Naidu (1950), Begum Hazrat Mahal (1820), Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (1900), Mamata Banerjee (1955), and C. N. Annadurai (1909). After him are Kumaragupta I (400), Fatima Jinnah (1893), Jhalkaribai (1830), M. S. Swaminathan (1925), Prince Vijaya (-543), and Vichitravirya (null).

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