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Yogendra Yadav was born on 5 September, 1963 in Saharanwas, Haryana, India, is an Indian politician. Discover Yogendra Yadav's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 60 years old?

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Occupation Psephologist, writer, activist, politician
Age 60 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 5 September, 1963
Birthday 5 September
Birthplace Saharanwas, Haryana, India
Nationality India

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His wife is Madhulika Banerjee

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Yogendra Yadav Net Worth

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1936

Yadav says that his original name, and its continued usage among family members and friends, reflects a familial response to the murder of his grandfather in a communal riot in 1936.

1963

Yogendra Yadav (born 5 September 1963) is an Indian activist, psephologist and politician whose primary interests are in the political and social sciences.

1985

Before joining CSDS, he was an assistant professor of Political Science at Panjab University, Chandigarh (1985-1993).

1995

Between 1995–2002, Yadav was the founder-convenor of the Lokniti network.

1996

Since 1996, he has been a psephologist and political commentator on a number of television channels in India including Doordarshan, NDTV and CNN-IBN.

1997

He was also founder-director of the CSDS Lokniti research programme on comparative democracy between 1997 and 2003.

2004

He was a Senior Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi from 2004 to 2016.

He was appointed a Senior Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in 2004.

2008

In 2008, Yadav received the Malcolm Adiseshiah Award for Development Studies.

2009

In 2009, he received the Global South Solidarity Award by the International Political Science Association.

Yadav has published many articles and books.

He was an editor and advisor for various publications, such as the European Journal of Political Research, Samayik Varta and the Hindi-language social science anthologies titled Lokchhintan and Lokchintak Granthamala.

2010

He is a former member of University Grants Commission (UGC) and National Advisory Council on Right to Education Act (NAC-RTE) constituted by Ministry of Human Resources and Development, Govt of India, in 2010.

Yadav was appointed as a member of the National Advisory Council for the implementation of the Right to Education Act in 2010.

2011

In 2011, Yadav supported the general aims of, and spoke publicly at events, during the nationwide anti-corruption protests and later joined the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), formed by anti-corruption activists.

Yadav served as a member of the National Executive of the party.

His involvement with the AAP was perceived as creating a conflict of interest with his July 2011 appointment as a member of the University Grants Commission, resulting in the Ministry of Human Resource Development ejecting him from the latter role in September 2013.

Yadav had argued that there was no conflict.

2014

Yadav contested the 2014 Indian general elections from Gurgaon constituency as an AAP candidate.

He came fourth and lost his deposit.

2015

He was a member of the National Executive of the Aam Aadmi Party until 2015.

Yadav is a founding member of Swaraj Abhiyan and Jai Kisan Andolan.

He was the founding National President of Swaraj India, a registered political party.

Yogendra Yadav's father was a professor of economics and his paternal grandfather was a teacher.

His wife, Madhulika Banerjee, is a professor at the University of Delhi.

His childhood name was Salim, which is commonly associated with people of the Muslim faith.

It was changed to Yogendra when he was aged five because he was being mocked by children at school.

On 4 March 2015, Yadav was voted out of AAP's Political Affairs Committee (PAC).

Subsequently, on 28 March, he was expelled from the party's National Executive for alleged "anti-party activities".

In April, he was expelled from the party.

Yadav denied being involved in anti-party activities and stated that he was victimised for challenging "dictatorial ways" of the party's chief Arvind Kejriwal.

Together with Prashant Bhushan, Anand Kumar (sociologist) and Ajit Jha, Yadav has formed a new political organisation called Swaraj Abhiyan.

2019

Yogendra Yadav urged Delhi voters to choose NOTA in 2019 Indian general election as no political parties in Delhi have fulfilled their promises.

He termed NOTA as “No Till an Alternative”.

2020

Yadav is a member of Samyukt Kisan Morcha coordination committee, which spearheaded the 2020–2021 Indian farmers' protest.

In 2022, Yogendra Yadav joined Rahul Gandhi - led Bharat Jodo Yatra and described the Yatra as a Dakshinayana movement of India, where the influences of the South are carried to the North.

He supports removing English language as a medium of teaching from higher education while opposing replacing it with Hindi.

He stated "Bringing Hindi as a substitute for English is as barbaric to me as the dominance of English today."

He supports higher education to be done through mother tongues.