Ritlal Yadav

Ritlal Yadav or Ritlal Ray is a leader of RJD who won the Bihar Legislative Council election in July 2015 as an independent candidate.[1] Ritlal was in jail in connection with multiple criminal cases, including murder charges. Ritlal is accused in over 33 cases.[2] He was a former Member of Legislative Council (MLC), the post, to which he was elected in 2016.[3] He was incarcerated in Beur Jail until August 2020.[4] However he was then released from the jail on bail.[5] Ritlal Yadav defeated BJP's Asha Devi Sinha in the 2020 Bihar Assembly elections.

Ritlal Yadav
Member of Legislative Assembly
Assumed office
2020
Preceded byAsha Devi Sinha
ConstituencyDanapur
Member of Legislative Council
In office
2015–2020
ConstituencyPatna Local Authorities
Personal details
Born1972
Danapur, Bihar, India
Political partyRashtriya Janata Dal
Alma materBihar Intermediate Council (I.A)

Life and career

Ritlal Yadav came to limelight in 2003 when Lalu Prasad Yadav was undertaking his Tel Pilawan lathi ghumawan Yatra to garner the support of Biharis for his party. According to media reports, Ritlal is an accused in the assassination of Bhartiya Janata Party leader Satyanarayan Sinha at Jamaluddin chowk near Khagaul. He is also named in several other serious cases like extortion and murder, which includes accusation in assassination of his rival Chunnu Singh at Chhath ghat in Neura and assassination of two railway contractors in a running train near Bakhtiyarpur.[6][7]

He came into contact with Lalu Prasad, when Ram Kripal Yadav defected from Rashtriya Janata Dal. Yadav was denied party ticket from Pataliputra Lok Sabha constituency, due to the party's decision to nominate Misa Bharti from there. Ritlal supported Misa Bharti in the election going against Ram Kripal Yadav, but she lost. He later joined Rashtriya Janata Dal and Lalu Prasad made him the General Secretary of the party. In 2010, Ritlal surrendered in the court in connection with numerous charges lodged against him and contested the Bihar Assembly Elections of 2010 from the prison. He lost the election of 2010. In 2015 Janata Dal (United), the arch rival of Rashtriya Janata Dal allied with it to take on Bharatiya Janata Party led alliance in Bihar Legislative Assembly Elections of 2015. Lalu could not provide ticket to Yadav from Danapur, hence he violated the party discipline by filing nomination as independent candidate from the same constituency which led to his expulsion from the RJD. He contested the elections to Bihar Legislative Council from within the jail in 2016 and became Member of Legislative Council.[8] In August 2020 he was released from the jail on bail.[9] In 2020 Bihar Assembly Election Rashtriya Janata Dal made Ritlal its candidate from Danapur assembly.[10]

In the 2020 elections to Bihar Assembly, Ritlal faced Asha Devi Sinha, the wife of Satyanarayan Sinha who was allegedly murdered by his men.[11] After the incarceration of Yadav she had been winning Danapur seat for three consecutive terms on the ticket of Bhartiya Janata Party.[12][2]

References
  1. "Jailed gangster Ritlal Yadav wins Bihar election against JD-U and BJP rivals". India Today. Archived from the original on 12 July 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2020.
  2. "बिहार चुनाव: पति के कत्ल के आरोपी डॉन से है पत्नी का मुक़ाबला, रीतलाल पर हैं 33 केस". Jansatta. Archived from the original on 17 October 2020. Retrieved 17 October 2020. Trans:Now the contest between the two leaders on this seat is going to be quite interesting. Ritlal is the main accused in the murder of Satyanarayana Sinha, the husband of Asha Devi, and had contested by election from Danapur seat in the year 2002.
  3. "Lalu Names Ritlal Yadav as RJD General Secretary". Archived from the original on 15 September 2014. Retrieved 17 October 2020.
  4. "From jail, gangster in Council". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 18 October 2020. Retrieved 17 October 2020.
  5. "24 घंटे पहले जमानत पर जेल से रिहा हुए एमएलसी रीतलाल यादव के खिलाफ लॉकडाउन उल्लंघन का मामला दर्ज". livehindustan.com. Archived from the original on 26 August 2022. Retrieved 17 October 2020.
  6. "रीतलाल यादव: लालू ने बेटी को जिताने के लिए मांगी थी मदद, BJP नेता की हत्या, रंगदारी समेत कई संगीन आरोप हैं; डॉन के नाम से फेमस हैं बाहुबली". Jansatta. Archived from the original on 18 October 2020. Retrieved 17 October 2020.
  7. "Bihar Assembly Election 2020: BJP Danapur MLA Asha Sinha to contest against RJD's Ritlal Yadav, accused of killing her husband". Avinash Kumar. Hindustan Times. 13 October 2020. Archived from the original on 26 August 2022. Retrieved 20 October 2020.
  8. "Jailed gangster Ritlal Yadav wins Bihar election against JD-U and BJP rivals". India Today. Archived from the original on 20 October 2020. Retrieved 17 October 2020.
  9. Kumar, Avinash. "Bihar Assembly Election 2020: Released from jail, Ritlal Yadav files nomination on RJD ticket". Hindustan Times. Archived from the original on 17 October 2020. Retrieved 17 October 2020.
  10. "RJD makes Ritlal Yadav its candidate for key Danapur seat". Times of India. Archived from the original on 26 August 2022. Retrieved 17 October 2020.
  11. "Bihar assembly elections: 'Don' to face wife of neta he allegedly shot".
  12. "Bihar Assembly elections | Yet again, parties across the spectrum field Bihar's 'bahubalis'". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 17 October 2020. Retrieved 17 October 2020.
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