Sudha Yadav

Sudha Yadav (born 16 October 1965) is an Indian politician and a member of the Parliamentary Board of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Career
Sudha Yadav served as a member of the 13th Lok Sabha from 1994 until 2004 from her elected seat at Mahendaragh, Haryana.

On 3 July 2015, she was appointed the National In-Charge of the BJP OBC Morcha. She served as a member of the National Commission for Backward Classes for the government of India from 2019 to 2022.

On 17 August 2022, she became a member of the Parliamentary Board of the BJP. She is the second woman to hold the position, after Sushma Swaraj.

Personal life
Sudha Yadav obtained her MSc in Chemistry in 1987 from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee (IIT Roorkee), where she went on to obtain her PhD in Chemistry in 1992. She is the recipient of the President's Guide award.

Her husband, Deputy Commandant Sukhbir Singh Yadav of the Border Security Force, died in the Kargil war. She has two children.

1999 Lok Sabha Elections
In 1999, the current Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, then in-charge of the Haryana BJP, proposed Sudha Yadav as a candidate for the general election. It was her first year in politics. The BJP fielded her as their candidate and she defeated Rao Inderjit Singh by 1.39 lakh (139,000) votes.

She lost the subsequent elections in 2004 and 2009.

Parliamentary Career

 * Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha (1999-2004)
 * Member, Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence (1999-2000)
 * Member,Official Language Committee (1999-2000)
 * Member, Hindi Salahkar Samiti of the Ministry of Civil Aviation(1999-2000)
 * Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Communications (2000-04)
 * Member, Parliamentary Standing Committee on Empowerment of Women (2000-01)