Jagadambi Prasad Yadav

Jagadambi Prasad Yadav
Minister of State for Commerce & Industry
In office 26 January 1979 – 28 July 1979
Prime Minister	Morarji Desai
Minister	George Fernandes
Minister of State for Health & Family Welfare
In office 14 August 1977 – 26 January 1979
Prime Minister	Morarji Desai
Minister	Raj Narain Morarji Desai
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
In office 1996–2002
Preceded by	Suraj Mandal
Succeeded by	Pradeep Yadav
Constituency	Godda
In office 1977–1980
Preceded by	Jagdish Mandal
Succeeded by	Maulana Saminuddin
Constituency	Godda
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
In office 3 April 1982 – 2 April 1988
Constituency	Bihar
In office 3 April 1968 – 2 April 1974
Constituency	Bihar
President of Bharatiya Janata Party, Bihar
In office 1981–1984
Preceded by	Kailashpati Mishra
Personal details
Born	(1925-01-01)1 January 1925 Munger, Bihar and Orissa Province, British India
Died	20 July 2002(2002-07-20) (aged 77) Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
Political party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Spouse	Janaki Devi
Children	8
Education	B.A.
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Jagadambi Prasad Yadav was a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and a minister of state Health and Family Welfare from 1977 to 1979 and then minister of state Commerce and Industry in the Morarji Desai Government of India. He was elected to Lok Sabha from Godda in Jharkhand. At the time of his death in 2002, he was Convenor of the Parliamentary Committee on Official Languages. He was President of Bharatiya Jana Sangh in Bihar as well as Bihar Bharatiya Janata Party from 1981 to 1984.

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