Laloo Prasad Yadav is an Indian politician from the state of Bihar .He is the President of The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and also the Minister of the Indian Railways under the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government in New Delhi.He is the Member of the Parliament in the 14th Lok Sabha elected from the Chhapra constituency in Bihar .

Laloo was born on 11th June in 1948 in Phulwari , Gopalganj district of Bihar in a poor Yadav family to Kundan Rai and Marachhiya Devi .On June 1,1973 he married Rabri Devi and they have two sons and seven daughters.

Laloo was inclined towards politics since his college days. His political career began with his involvement in the elections of the Patna University Students Union. He led the student movement inspired by Jai Prakash Narayan in the 1970s. The former Chief Minister of Bihar and the then President of Bihar State Janata Party,senior leader Satyendra Narayan Sinha placed him as a candidate for Lok Sabha and campaigned for him.

At twenty nine years of age he was elected as the member of the 6th Lok Sabha on a Janata Party ticket and became one of the youngest member to be elected to the Parliament.In the next ten years he became a formidable force in State politics of Bihar .In the General election and State Assembly election in 1989 he successfully led the National Front coalition in Bihar. Laloo served as the Chief Minister of Bihar from 1990 to 1997 but his rule was interrupted following the escalating corruption charges in the Fodder scam. He formed the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) in 1997, after breaking away from the Janata Dal.

Laloo Prasad Yadav was elected to the 14th Lok Sabha from Chhapra and Madhepura constituency of Bihar and consequently made the Railway Minister of the UPA Government .Later he gave up the Madhepura seat .As a Railway Minister he has been very successful and has won loads of accolades for his performance.He has banned the use of plastic cups for serving tea at railway stations and announced that they would be replaced by kulhads (earthen cups) and this has been seen as a major achievement.

His major achievment is the transformation that he has been able to bring about in the Indian Railways from a loss making organization - at a verge of bankruptcy to a profit making organization. The Indian Railways under his stewardship is said to have made a profit of 14000 crores with decreased freight and unchanged passenger fares in 2006.This method of managing an organization has caught the attention of Universities like Harvard and Wharton where he was invited to give lectures to the students. The turnaround of the Indian Railways is now being studied by the students of the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad.

This political leader Laloo Prasad Yadav has thus demonstrated his wily political skills in Indian politics.