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<h2>Professional Biography</h2>
<h3>Motion of Confidence in the Lok Sabha - July 21-22, 2008</h3>
<p>Lalu, during the special session of Lok Sabha termed the <a href="/India/2008/July/22-Left-parties-55244.asp">Left parties are good at creating confusion</a>.</p>
<h3>As Railway Minister</h3>
<p>Lalu is considered a good politician and a responsible Minister.</p>
<p>Lal <a href="/India/2008/December/18-Lalu-Prasad-awards-79707.asp">awarded 500,000 rupees</a> to a body builder Mir Mohtesham Ali who is an Indian Railways employee.</p>
<h4>Probe into scams during tenure as Railway Minister</h4>
<p>On September 18, 09, Indian Railway Minister <a href="/Features/Politics/Mamata-Banerjee.asp">Mamata Banerjee</a> said an <a href="/India/2009/September/18-Railways-probe-scam-29189.asp">external agency would probe</a> allegations of graft during Lalu's tenure as Railway Minister.</p>
<h2>In Recent News</p>
<!--N--><p><a href="/India/2010/March/19-Pranab-talk-opponents-6255.asp">Pranab to talk with opponents of Womens Reservation Bill</a><br />Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee is expected to hold talks with those opposing the Womens Reservation Bill before the Central Government takes a final call on it. <small>ANI</small></p><p><a href="/India/2010/March/18-Pawar-asks-Women-Bill-6225.asp">Pawar asks Womens Bill opponents to let it pass in current form</a><br />Nationalist Congress Party chief and Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar on Thursday asked the Womens Reservation Bill opponents to let the Bill pass in its present form. <small>ANI</small></p><p><a href="/India/2010/March/16-Thackeray-criticises-Yadav-trio-5774.asp">Raj Thackeray criticises Yadav trio over Womens Reservation Bill</a><br />Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray has criticized Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Yadav, Samajwadi Party (SP) supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav and Janata Dal-United (JD-U) leader Sharad Yadav for their opposition to the Womens Reservation Bill. <small>ANI</small></p><p><a href="/India/2010/March/14-Marathon-cause-5439.asp">Marathon for the cause of women empowerment held in Patna</a><br />A large number of girls and boys participated in a marathon organised for women empowerment here on Sunday (March 14). <small>ANI</small></p><p><a href="/India/2010/March/14-allow-passage-5362.asp">Wont allow passage of Womens Reservation Bill in Lok Sabha: Lalu Yadav</a><br />Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) President Lalu Prasad Yadav deciding to stall the Womens Reservation Bill in its present form has said that he will not allow it to pass in the Lok Sabha. <small>ANI</small></p><p><a href="/India/2010/March/11-Bihar-Congressdraws-Sadhu-Yadav-4947.asp">Bihar Congress withdraws Sadhu Yadavs suspension</a><br />The Bihar Congress on Thursday withdrew the resignation of Sadhu Yadav, against whom action was taken yesterday for speaking against the government on the issue of the Womens Reservation Bill. <small>ANI</small></p><p><a href="/India/2010/March/11-Govt-assures-decision-4944.asp">Govt. assures of decision on seven suspended MPs by Thursday evening</a><br />Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister P. K. Bansal on Thursday said a decision on the seven Rajya Sabha MPs, who were suspended after they created a ruckus during the tabling of the Womens Reservation Bill on Monday, will be taken by the evening. <small>ANI</small></p><p><a href="/India/2010/March/11-Yadav-trio-meet-Sonia-4869.asp">Yadav trio to meet Sonia Gandhi over Womens Reservation Bill</a><br />Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Yadav, Samajwadi Party (SP) supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav and Janata Dal-United (JD-U) chief Sharad Yadav are expected to meet Congress President Sonia Gandhi to discuss the Womens Reservation Bill. <small>ANI</small></p><p><a href="/India/2010/March/11-Centre-ready-party-4846.asp">Centre ready for all-party meet to discuss Womens Reservation Bill: Pranab Mukherjee</a><br />Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday said the Central Government is ready to call for an all-party meeting to discuss the Womens Reservation Bill. <small>ANI</small></p><p><a href="/India/2010/March/10-Lalu-Yadavdraw-support-4639.asp">Lalu Yadav to withdraw support to UPA</a><br />Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav is expected to hand over a letter to President Pratibha Patil on Wednesday withdrawing his partys support to the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government on the issue of the Women Reservation Bill. <small>ANI</small></p><p><a href="/India/2010/March/10-Congress-suspends-Sadhu-Yadav-4638.asp">Congress suspends Sadhu Yadav</a><br />Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government on Wednesday suspended party member Sadhu Yadav for speaking against the government on the issue of the Womens Reservation Bill. <small>ANI</small></p><p><a href="/India/2010/March/9-Women-Reservation-Bill-4604.asp">Womens Reservation Bill and its saga of dramas and disruptions in Rajya Sabha</a><br />Even as the Rajya Sabha passed the long-pending Womens Reservation Bill on Tuesday evening with support of 186 votes, the Bill had its share of dramas, disruptions and arrival of marshals in the august House over the last two days. <small>ANI</small></p><p><a href="/India/2010/March/9-Women-Reservation-Bill-Unruly-4499.asp">Womens Reservation Bill: Unruly Rajya Sabha MPs suspended for rest of session</a><br />Seven Rajya Sabha MPs, who had created a ruckus on Monday during the tabling of the Womens Reservation Bill, were suspended for the rest of Parliament session on Tuesday. <small>ANI</small></p><p><a href="/India/2010/March/9-ImpasseWomen-Reservation-4448.asp">Impasse over Womens Reservation Bill: Rajya Sabha adjourned</a><br />The Rajya Sabha was adjourned within minutes of reconvening on Tuesday as members began to shout slogans against the Womens Reservation Bill. <small>ANI</small></p><p><a href="/India/2010/March/9-meet-Lalu-Mulayam-4416.asp">PM to meet Lalu, Mulayam, Sharad over Women Reservation Bill</a><br />Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh will meet Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad and Janata Dal-United leader Sharad Yadav today over the Womens Reservation Bill. <small>ANI</small></p><p><a href="/India/2010/March/8-Prime-Minister-meet-select-4412.asp">Prime Minister to meet select leaders over Women Reservation Bill tomorrow</a><br />Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will hold a meet with the party chiefs of Rashtriya Janata Dal, Samajwadi Party, and Janata Dal (United) on Tuesday morning over the Women Reservation Bill, a decision in this regard was taken at the Congress partys core group meet on Monday evening. <small>ANI</small></p><p><a href="/India/2010/March/8-Core-group-Congress-party-4410.asp">Core group of Congress party meets to discuss Womens Reservation Bill</a><br />A core-group meeting of the Congress party is being held at the Prime Ministers residence (7, Race Course Road) here in the wake of postponement of the Women Reservation Bill in the Parliament on Monday. <small>ANI</small></p><p><a href="/India/2010/March/8-Sonia-hold-meet-4406.asp">PM, Sonia to hold meet at 7 RCR over Women Reservation Bill</a><br />Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi will hold a meet at 6.30 p.m. at the 7 Race Course Road in the capital. <small>ANI</small></p><p><a href="/India/2010/March/8-party-meet-postponed-4396.asp">All party meet postponed to Tuesday following RJD, SP protest</a><br />The all-party meeting called by the Prime Minister, Dr. Manomhan Singh, to discuss differences over the Womens Reservation Bill, was postponed to Tuesday just after it was briefly held at 4.15 p.m. on Monday amidst protest by the Rashtriya Janata Dal and the Samajwadi Party and to form a better floor strategy in the House. <small>ANI</small></p><p><a href="/India/2010/March/8-appeals-Lalu-Mulayam-4395.asp">PM appeals to Lalu, Mulayam on Womens Reservation Bill</a><br />In the latest development regarding the Womens Reservation Bill, the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, on Monday afternoon held a meeting with Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad Yadav and Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav. r. Singh reportedly appealed to the two leaders to let the Bill pass with a suggestion to introduce an Amendment Bill later on. <small>ANI</small></p><p><a href="/India/2010/March/8-calls-party-4379.asp">PM calls for all-party meeting on Womens Reservation Bill, meets Mulayam, Lalu, but they will skip</a><br />With proceedings in Parliament all but suspended over the tabling and expected passage of the more than decade-old Womens Reservation Bill on Monday, the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, has called for an all-party meeting from 4.15 p.m. in the hope of arriving at a political consensus and avoid the Bill being put to a voice vote later this evening. <small>ANI</small></p><p><a href="/India/2010/March/8-Prime-Minister-holds-meet-4371.asp">Prime Minister holds meet with Lalu, Mulayam on Womens Reservation Bill</a><br />In the latest development regarding the Women Reservation Bill, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday afternoon held meeting with Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad Yadav and Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav. <small>ANI</small></p><p><a href="/India/2010/March/8-Uproar-ParliamentWomen-4361.asp">Uproar in Parliament over Womens Bill; both House adjourned till 4 pm</a><br />The Rajya Sabha witnessed unprecendented scenes leading to an adjournment for the fourth time on Monday as determined SP, RJD and BSP members entered the Well of the House, ripped off mikes and tore up papers in an attempt to stall the Womens Reservation Bill from being taken up for consideration. <small>ANI</small></p><p><a href="/India/2010/March/8-Congress-leaders-discusses-4325.asp">PM meets Congress leaders, discusses floor strategy for Womens Bill passage</a><br />The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, is attending a Congress party meeting to formulate the floor strategy for ensuring the passage of the Womens Reservation Bill, which has been held up for more than a decade. <small>ANI</small></p><p><a href="/India/2010/March/8-Women-Reservation-Bill-4310.asp">Womens Reservation Bill: SP, RJD withdraw support to UPA Govt</a><br />The Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) on Monday decided to withdraw support to the UPA Government over the Womens Reservation Bill. <small>ANI</small></p><p><a href="/India/2010/March/7-opposes-Women-Reservation-Bill-4228.asp">BSP opposes Women Reservation Bill seeking quota within quota for SC/ST</a><br />Bahujan Samaj Party on Sunday evening opposed the Women Reservation Bill in its present form by seeking inclusion of quota for Schedule Caste, Schedule Tribe women in it. <small>ANI</small></p>
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