New Delhi: Former Union minister and RJD leader Sharad Yadav passed away at the age of 75 in a private hospital in Gurugram, his daughter Subhashini Sharad Yadav confirmed the news on Twitter on Thursday. He is survived by his wife, a daughter and a son. The former JD(U) chief was battling health issues for months. A statement from the Fortis Memorial Research Institute said that Sharad Yadav was brought to the emergency ward in an unconscious and unresponsive state. On examination, he had no pulse or recordable blood pressure, news agency PTI quoted the hospital as saying. His CPR was done under the ACLS protocol. Despite best efforts, he could not be revived and was declared dead at 10:19 pm on January 12.
According to sources, he was fine till afternoon, but later he had some health-related problems, after which he was taken to the hospital. The last rites of former Union Minister Sharad Yadav will be held on January 14 in his native village Aankhmau located in Babai Tehsil of Hoshangabad, Madhya Pradesh. Today his body will be kept at his Delhi residence 5A Westend, Chhatarpur Farm, New Delhi for last darshan. Sharad Yadav’s daughter and his son-in-law gave information in this regard. Born on July 1, 1947, in Babai village in Hoshangabad district of Madhya Pradesh, Sharad Yadav was first elected to the Lok Sabha in 1974 in a by-election from Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh. In 1977, he was re-elected from the same constituency. When the Janata Party split in 1979, he supported the Charan Singh faction. When Rajiv Gandhi entered the Lok Sabha for the first time in 1981 by winning the by-election from Amethi, Sharad Yadav was the losing candidate on a Lok Dal ticket. He lost in 1984 from Badaun in Uttar Pradesh on a Lok Dal ticket under the leadership of Charan Singh. He won from Badaun (Lok Sabha constituency) in the year 1989 as a member of Janata Dal.
Later, he contested from the Madhepura Lok Sabha constituency in Bihar in a by-election caused by Lalu Prasad Yadav’s resignation from his seat in 2004. He won the Madhepura seat four times in 1991, 1996, 1999 and 2009. He lost the Madhepura constituency four times – twice to Lalu in 1998 and 2004, Pappu Yadav of RJD in 2014 and Dinesh of JD(U) in 2019. Sharad Yadav Yadav contested the 2019 Lok Sabha elections on RJD ticket. In May 2018, he launched the Loktantrik Janata Dal (LJD) after breaking away from the JD(U) due to its alliance with the BJP in Bihar. In March last year, he merged his party LJD with the Rashtriya Janata Dal. This political development was seen as an attempt to rehabilitate Sharad Yadav and his colleagues from the JP movement, as his party LJD had no mass base.
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