Rajesh Ranjan (1961/1962 – 2012), better known as Pappu Yadav, was an Indian politician. He won elections to the Lok Sabha (the lower house of the Parliament of India) in 1991, 1996, 1999, and in 2004 from several constituencies in Bihar as a Rashtriya Janata Dal RJD candidate. In February 2008, he was convicted in the murder of Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI-M) legislator Ajit Sarkar and sentenced to life imprisonment. Subsequently he was debarred from the 2009 general election.
Pappu Yadav has more than 15 criminal cases pending against him, but has been convicted only in the Sarkar case.
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