{{Short description|Indian politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2015}} {{Use Indian English|date=December 2015}} {{Infobox officeholder | image = Chandrajit Yadav.jpg | name = Chandrajit Yadav | birth_date = {{Birth date|1930|1|1|df=y}} | birth_place = Sarupaha, Azamgarh, United Provinces, British India | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2007|5|25|1930|1|1}} | death_place = | constituency3 = Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh | office = Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha | term = 1991-1996 | predecessor = Ram Krishna Yadav | successor = Ramakant Yadav | term2 = 1980-1984 | predecessor2 = Mohsina Kidwai | successor2 = Santosh Singh | term3 = 1967-1977 | predecessor3 = Ram Harakh Yadav | successor3 = Ram Naresh Yadav | party = Janata Dal | other_party = Indian National Congress, Janata Party | spouse = Asha Yadav | children = | website = | footnotes = | date = | year = | source = https://loksabha.nic.in/writereaddata/biodata_1_12/2013.htm }} '''Chandrajit Yadav''' was an Indian politician. He was elected to the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India from Azamgarh constituency in 1967, 1971 as member of the Indian National Congress, and lost to Ram Naresh Yadav of Janata Party in 1977. When Indira Gandhi split the party, he remained with the 'Socialist' group, and came third in Azamgarh bypoll of 1978 won by Mohsina Kidwai of Indira Congress.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/cover-story/story/19780531-verdict-of-azamgarh-firmly-establishes-indira-gandhis-comeback-trail-818396-2015-01-08|title = Verdict of Azamgarh firmly establishes Indira Gandhi's comeback trail}}</ref> He then left Congress and won from Azamgarh in 1980 as Janata Party (Secular) candidate. Then he was back in Congress and lost in Phulpur in 1989 Lok Sabha elections. He won from Azamgarh in 1991 Lok Sabha elections as a Janata Dal candidate.
He was the Union Minister of Steel and Mines in the Indira Gandhi Ministry.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/cover-story/story/19780531-verdict-of-azamgarh-firmly-establishes-indira-gandhis-comeback-trail-818396-2015-01-08 | title=Azamgarh byelection: Beginning of the end? | publisher=India Today | work=Sunil Sethi | date=31 May 1978 | access-date=11 November 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/chandrajit-yadav-dead/article1848003.ece | title=Chandrajit Yadav dead | work=The Hindu | date=27 May 2007 | accessdate=11 November 2015}}</ref><ref name="Reed1977">{{cite book|author=Sir Stanley Reed|title=The Times of India Directory and Year Book Including Who's who|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G2LVAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=12 June 2020|year=1977|publisher=Times of India Press|page=798}}</ref>
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==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20170222201527/http://164.100.47.132/LssNew/biodata_1_12/2013.htm Official Biographical Sketch Member of Parliament]
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