Career
The Gopalganj constituency had become a reserved seat and an LJP candidate, who had not previously been successful in elections, was preferred to Yadav elsewhere. Two days after leaving the RJD, in March 2009, Yadav joined the Incorporated and was unsuccessful in gaining re-election to the Lok Sabha - the lower house of the Parliament of India - when he contested the Champaran Lok Sabha constituency. In March 2010 he was briefly suspended from the Bihar section of the Indian National Congress (Incorporated) for allegedly challenging the party"s policy strategy.
He denied voicing any such challenge and his explanation was accepted.
Returning to the Gopalganj constituency, Yadav then fought and lost as a candidate for the Incorporated in the Bihar legislative assembly election, 2010. That election saw confusion regarding the ages of several candidates, including Yadav.
The candidates claimed that errors had resulted in the printing process for pre-election affidavits, and in Yadav"s case this meant that he was recorded as aged 47 in 2009 when he had been shown as 44 at the time of the 2004 general elections. When asked for clarification by the British Broadcasting Corporation in 2009, he claimed to be aged 40.
By 2011 he was facing charges relating both to an assault in 2001 on an officer of the Indian Administrative Service and of involvement in the "flood relief scam" of 2004-2005, which occurred in Bihar.
These follow numerous other brushes with the law, which the Asia Times described in 2008 as "a long list of criminal cases - and arrest warrants - pending against him including those of bribery, forgery, intimidation, assault, rape, cheating and embezzlement."
The 2003 film Gangaajal, which is based on true events in Bihar and features a politician character called Sadhu Yadav, caused Yadav"s supporters to attack cinemas when it was released. Yadav himself attempted to prevent screening of the film, pleading to the court that it belittled him, but Prakash Jha, the director, claimed that "Sadhu Yadav is just a character in the movie. The movie has nothing to do with the profession of politics nor is it a caricature of the Bihar politician."
He stood as an independent candidate.
