About

Bhupender Yadav is a Bharatiya Janata Party leader from Rajasthan. Born in Ajmer on June 30, 1969, he is currently Union Cabinet Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change.

In 2000, Bhupender Yadav, an erudite advocate, was appointed the General Secretary of the Akhil Bharatiya Adhivakta Parishad and held the position till 2009. In 2010, he was appointed as National Secretary of Bharatiya Janata Party. In 2014, he took charge as National General Secretary of the BJP.

Shri Yadav was BJP’s election co-in-charge for the Assembly polls of Rajasthan (2013) and Jharkhand (2014) and in-charge for Gujarat. He was incharge for the 2019 Lok Sabha election & 2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly elections. Currently, he is the election in-charge for Rajasthan.

Shri Yadav is a Member of Parliament from the Lok Sabha constituency of Alwar, and was Rajya Sabha MP from 2012. Shri Yadav was re-elected to the position in April 2018. Bhupender Yadav received his Bachelor of Laws degree from Government College, Ajmer.

Shri Bhupender Yadav was the Minister for Labour and Environment from 2021 to 2024.

Over the years, Shri Yadav has been the chairman of the following parliamentary committees:

• Personnel, Public Grievances, Law and Justice, 2018
• Joint Committee on the Financial Resolution and Deposit Insurance Bill, 2017
• Select Committee of Rajya Sabha on the Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty Third Amendment) Bill, 2017
• Committee on Commerce Member, General Purposes Committee
• Joint Committee on the Enforcement of Security Interest and Recovery of Debts Laws and Miscellaneous Provisions
• (Amendment) Bill, 2016
• Select Committee of Rajya Sabha on the Enemy Property (Amendment and Validation) Bill, 2016
• Joint Committee on the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2015
• Select Committee of Rajya Sabha on the Prevention of Corruption (Amendment) Bill, 2013
• Select Committee of Rajya Sabha on the Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty Second Amendment) Bill, 2014
• Select Committee of Rajya Sabha on the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2015
• Select Committee of Rajya Sabha on the Repealing and Amending Bill, 2014
• Rajya Sabha Select Committee on GST Bill

Bhupender Yadav is the author of the book ‘The Rise of the BJP’ and ‘Supreme Court on Forest Conservation’. He regularly expresses his views on issues of critical importance in various newspapers and on news websites.

In all roles that he has taken up, Shri Yadav has proven that hard work, dedication and standing by principles can take one a very long way.