Mitrasen Yadav

Mitrasen Yadav (11 July 1934 – 7 September 2015) was an Indian politician. He started his political career with communist party of India being a popular figure with the masses/locals but later joined Samajwadi Party. In 1966, he was sentenced to life for the double murder of two men. In 1972, under the chief ministership of Indian National Congress leader Kamalapati Tripathi, he was granted Governor's pardon for his murder conviction. In the 1989 Lok Sabha polls Mitrasen defeated BJP during an ongoing movement of building Rama Temple at Babri Masjid from Faizabad constituency. He was elected five times to the Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha and twice to the national parliament. In 1998 he joined the Samajwadi Party and was elected to the national legislature (12th Lok Sabha) from Faizabad constituency. In 1996 he was charged in the murder of Bhavanipher Yadav and also for attacking witnesses to the crime. In 2007, he was involved in the human-trafficking case, where four MPs were taking people abroad on diplomatic passports as their relatives. In 2007, his son, Anand Sen Yadav, became a cabinet minister from jail in the 2004 Mayawati cabinet; but he had to resign after being convicted for said charge however his son was acquitted by the High Court. In 2009, after Mitrasen was implicated in human trafficking he was dropped by Mayawati as a "liability". He then re-joined the Samajwadi Party, but lost the parliamentary election. Mitrasen in 2012 won MLA seat from Bikapur with a margin of 1868 votes.