Hukmdev Narayan Yadav

Hukmdev Narayan Yadav is a politician from Bihar, who has been Union Minister for Textiles, whilst also serving as a Union Minister of State and long-serving influential member of the Lok Sabha. He is the recipient of Padma Bhushan India's third highest civilian award. He represented the Madhubani constituency of Bihar in 1977, 1999, 2009, 2014 and 1989 from Sitamarhi Lok Sabha constituency. He was with the Samyukta Socialist Party in 1960s and various faces of Janata Dal and its off-shoots in 1980s, before he joined the Bharatiya Janata Party. Yadav is known for his fiery speeches in the parliament. In August 2018, Yadav was recipient of Outstanding Parliamentarian Award for the period of 2014-2017 and was felicitated at an event at the central hall of Parliament. Yadav is also the father of politician Ashok Kumar Yadav, a Bharatiya Janata Party MP in the Lok Sabha.