Ram Sahaya Yadav

Ramsahaya Prasad Yadav (born 24 July 1971) is a Nepalese politician who has been the 3rd Vice President of Nepal since 2023. Prior to his tenure as vice president he was a member of the Federal Parliament of Nepal from 2018 to 2023, and Minister for Forest and Environment from 2022 to 2023.

His Excellency The Right Honourable Ram Sahaya Yadav
राम सहाय प्रसाद यादव
Official portrait, 2023
3rd Vice President of Nepal
Incumbent
Assumed office 20 March 2023
President	Ram Chandra Paudel
Prime Minister	Pushpa Kamal Dahal Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli
Preceded by	Nanda Kishor Pun
Minister of Forests and Environment
In office 8 October 2021 – 3 July 2022
President	Bidhya Devi Bhandari
Prime Minister	Sher Bahadur Deuba
Preceded by	Krishna Gopal Shrestha
Succeeded by	Pradeep Yadav
Member of Parliament, Pratinidhi Sabha
In office 4 March 2018 – 20 March 2023
Preceded by	Ramchandra Yadav
Succeeded by	Upendra Yadav
Constituency	Bara 2
Member of the Constituent Assembly for Madheshi Jana Adhikar Forum party list
In office 28 May 2008 – 28 May 2012
Personal details
Born	(1971-07-24) 24 July 1971 (age 54) Baswariya Tole, Nepal
Other political affiliations	Nepal Sadbhawana Party MJF-N Federal Socialist Forum People's Socialist Party, Nepal
Spouse	Champa Devi Yadav
Children	3
Education	SLK College (BS) Thakur Ram Multiple Campus (BEd)
Website	http://vpn.gov.np/en/

Early life and education

Ramsahaya Prasad Yadav was born on 24 July 1971,^[1] in Baswariya Tole, Nepal, to Sihwa Devi Yadav and Prasad Ray Yadav. Yadav is a member of the Madheshi people and his family were farmers. He was educated at the Shree Nepal National Primary School in the Basbariya Rural Municipality and the Shree Janata Lower Secondary School in Kachorwa. He passed the science and mathematics I.S.C. at Bihar Intermediate Education Council in 1990. He graduated with a bachelor of science degree from SLK College in 1993, and a Bachelor of Education degree from Thakur Ram Multiple Campus in 1998.^[2]

Career

From 1991 to 2008, Yadav worked as a science and mathematics teacher at the Shree Pannadevi Kanya Secondary School in Kalaiya.^[2]

Yadav joined the Nepal Sadbhawana Party (NSP) in 1990.^[2][3] He attended the 3rd, 4th, and 5th conventions of the NSP. He was the first chair of the Madheshi Jana Adhikar Forum, Nepal (MJFN).^[2] The Federal Socialist Party and MJFN merged to form the Federal Socialist Forum, Nepal (FSFN), which Yadav was general secretary of in 2015.^[2][4]

In the 2008 election Yadav won a seat in the 1st Nepalese Constituent Assembly, but did not win a seat in the 2nd Nepalese Constituent Assembly.^[3] In the 2017 election Yadav was elected to the 1st session of the Federal Parliament of Nepal from Bara 2 after defeating Nepali Congress nominee Radhe Chandra Yadav.^[5][4] He won reelection in 2022.^[3]

Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba selected Yadav to serve as Minister for Forest and Environment in his cabinet. Yadav won the vice-presidency in the 2023 election as the nominee of the People's Socialist Party, Nepal (PSP-N).^[3]

Personal life

Yadav married Champa Devi Yadav, with whom he had three children.^[2]