Tej Pratap Yadav

Not to be confused with Tej Pratap Singh Yadav.

Tej Pratap Yadav (born 16 April 1988) is an Indian politician. He was cabinet minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change in the Government of Bihar.^[1] He is the elder son of former Chief Ministers of Bihar, Lalu Prasad Yadav and Rabri Devi.^[2][3][4][5]

Tej Pratap Yadav
Yadav in 2023
Cabinet Minister, Government of Bihar
In office 16 August 2022 – 28 January 2024
Governor	Rajendra Arlekar Phagu Chauhan
Chief Minister	Nitish Kumar
Ministry and Departments	Environment Forest & Climate Change
Preceded by	Neeraj Kumar Singh
In office 20 November 2015 – 26 July 2017
Governor	Ram Nath Kovind Keshari Nath Tripathi
Chief Minister	Nitish Kumar
Ministry and Departments	Health Forest and Environment Backward & Extremely Backward Class Welfare
Preceded by	Ashwini Kumar Choubey
Succeeded by	Mangal Pandey
Member of Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Assumed office 8 November 2020
Preceded by	Raj Kumar Ray
Constituency	Hasanpur
In office 2015–2020
Preceded by	Ravindra Ray Yadav
Succeeded by	Mukesh Raushan
Constituency	Mahua
Personal details
Born	(1988-04-16) 16 April 1988 (age 37)[1] Gopalganj, Bihar, India
Political party	Rashtriya Janata Dal
Spouse	Aishwarya Roy ​ (m. 2018)​
Relations	Tejashwi Yadav (brother) Misa Bharti (sister) Tej Pratap Singh Yadav (brother-in-law) Chiranjeev Rao (brother-in-law) Sadhu Yadav (uncle) Subhash Prasad Yadav (uncle) Chandrika Roy (father-in-law)
Parents	Lalu Prasad Yadav (father) Rabri Devi (mother)
Residence(s)	Patna, Bihar, India
Occupation	Politician

Early life and education

Tej Pratap Yadav was born on 16 April 1988 in Gopalganj, Bihar. He is the elder son among the seven daughters and two sons of two former Chief Ministers of Bihar, Lalu Prasad Yadav and his wife Rabri Devi. His 7 sisters are Misa Bharti, Rohini, Chanda, Ragini, Hema, Anushka and Raj Lakshmi Yadav. Tejashwi Yadav is his younger brother.^[6]

He passed Intermediate from BSEB in 2010 as per the affidavit proposed by him in 2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly Election. ^[7][8][9]

Personal life

He was married to Aishwarya Roy, daughter of Chandrika Roy and granddaughter of Bihar's ex-Chief Minister Daroga Prasad Rai.^[10][11] He has been accused by his wife of beating her and using drugs, and also of cross-dressing.^[12] According to the Times of India report, one of his grouses against his wife is that "she has not been able to adjust to his way of life."^[13]

Political career

He became a Cabinet Minister of Health in Nitish Kumar's government from November 2015 until July 2017.^[14] In December 2015, as the Environment Minister of Bihar, he promoted horse-riding as an initiative to curb pollution in the state.^[15]

The marital discord between Yadav and Aishwarya Roy, daughter of Chandrika Roy, resulted into political "subplot in fight for Parsa seat" of Bihar Assembly, in 2020.^[16] Aishwarya also urged the public to vote for CM Nitish Kumar, who is a key political rival of her husband's family.^[17]

Controversy

In 2017, Tej Pratap Yadav threatened to skin Prime Minister Narendra Modi alive after Lalu Prasad's security was downgraded from Z+ to Z.^[18] Lalu defended his son over this.^[19] On the last day of voting in the 2019 general elections, a video of an alleged assault on a video journalist by his bodyguards went viral, while Yadav lodged an FIR calling it a conspiracy to kill him.^{[20][21][22][23]}

YouTube career

Tej Pratap Yadav also runs a YouTube vlog channel called "L-R vlog" in which he shares his daily life and travel videos. Recently, his channel crossed 1 lakh subscribers. To celebrate 1 lakh subscribers milestone, a hoarding featuring Yadav was cropped up in Bihar's capital Patna. The hoarding was a “Thank You” to the 1 lakh subscribers of his vlog channel, while also urging people to subscribe to his YouTube channel.^[24]