Sudha Yadav is not a new name in politics, but her political career started with the efforts of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In the 1999 Lok Sabha elections held after the Kargil war, Narendra Modi suggested Sudha Yadav's name to the BJP when the party was grappling with the question of who to field against Rao Inderjit Singh in Haryana.
Before the preparations for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections were sounded, the Bharatiya Janata Party has started to reform its organization. In this sequence, on Wednesday i.e. today, BJP reconstituted its Parliamentary Board and Central Election Committee.
The party has dropped its veteran leader Nitin Gadkari and Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan from the parliamentary board while BS Yeddyurappa, Sarbananda Sonowal, K Laxman, Iqbal Singh Lalpura, Sudha Yadav and Satyanarayan Jatiya have been included in the board as new faces. has done.
After this reshuffle, the reasons for leaving Gadkari and Chauhan out of the board are being discussed, the name of Dr. Sudha Yadav, the only woman member who joined the board, is also in the news. The discussion is because before Sudha Yadav, the only woman member in the board used to be Late Sushma Swaraj, who was the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha before 2014 and became the country's first woman external affairs minister after the Modi government was formed.
So who is Sudha Yadav? Where do they come from? Questions like how his political career started started being searched on Google.
Then Narendra Modi was in charge of the party in Haryana.
Actually the matter is of 1999 when Sudha Yadav's name first appeared as a leader. The biggest challenge before the BJP in the 1999 Lok Sabha elections after the Kargil war was how to compete with Rao Inderjit Singh, who was contesting from the Congress side. All the big leaders of the party believed that a veteran leader should be fielded in front of Inderjit so that the party would benefit and he could beat the Congress on the land of Haryana.
During this, Narendra Modi was the party in-charge of Haryana. When the top leaders of the party asked him about the candidate for the Lok Sabha seat of Mahendragarh, he put forward only one name at that time, and that name was none other than Dr. Sudha Yadav.
Sudha Yadav's husband was martyred in Kargil war itself
Sudha Yadav's husband was a deputy commandant in BSF and was martyred in the Kargil war itself. Sudha was not even thinking of joining politics or contesting elections after all this. In such a situation, when Narendra Modi suggested the name, top BJP leaders talked to him about it, but the result was zero. Sudha did not want to contest the election, so she returned everyone empty handed. Concerned, the party gave the responsibility of persuading Sudha Yadav to state in-charge Narendra Modi.
Sudha Yadav, while discussing this whole incident many times, said that when she had clearly asked not to contest the elections, then during that time she was made to talk to the Haryana in-charge Narendra Modi on the phone. He told Sudha that as much as your family needs you, this country also needs you. Sudha tells that after the martyrdom of her husband, that time was very difficult for her, in such a situation she could not even think of contesting elections, but Narendra Modi's words gave her energy. And Sudha Yadav, who aspired to become a lecturer, agreed to contest the election.