Yogendra yadav biography examples

Indian psephologist, activist and politician

For the soldier, see Yogendra Singh Yadav.

Yogendra Yadav (born 5 September 1963) is an Indian activist, psephologist and politician whose primary interests are in the political and social sciences.^[2][3][4] He was a Senior Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi from 2004 to 2016.

He is a former member of University Grants Commission (UGC) and National Advisory Council on the Right to Education Act (NAC-RTE) constituted by Ministry of Human Resources and Development, Govt of India, in 2010.^[5] He was a member of the National Executive of the Aam Aadmi Party until 2015.

Yadav is a founding member of Swaraj Abhiyan and Jai Kisan Andolan.^[6] He was the founding National President of Swaraj India, a registered political party.^[7]

Early life

Yogendra Yadav's father was a professor of economics and his paternal grandfather