Om Prakash Yadav

Who is Om Prakash Yadav?

Om Prakash Yadav is an Indian politician from Bihar. In the Indian General Election, 2009, he was elected to the 15th Lok Sabha from Siwan, by defeating Hena Shahab by a margin over 63,000 votes. Mrs. Shahab, the wife of India's most infamous criminal politician Mohammad Shahabuddin, was widely viewed as a proxy for him. Shahabuddin himself is serving life-imprisonment in jail, having been convicted for murder.

Yadav was a member and contested elections for Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal party. However, in 2009, he was not selected to as the party candidate from Siwan and was replaced by Brishin Patel, who was perceived to be close to Nitish Kumar as he belonged to the same Kurmi caste, and had also won the seat in 1991. However, Brishin had lost touch - he polled 7% of the votes; this may count among Nitish's major errors in the elections. Om Prakash decided to fight the elections as an Independent, and Siwan became one of the few seats in Bihar that did not go to the JD-BJP alliance.

As an independent candidate, Om Prakash Yadav may be supporting the Indian National Congress led coalition