Yogendra Yadav was an IDIA scholar at National University of Study and Research in Law, Ranchi (NUSRL). He comes from the Naxalite prone village of Pitij in Chhatra district of Jharkhand. His schooling was in Hindi medium and to support his family, he hawked newspapers around Ranchi from a very early age. He came across IDIA and CLAT while distributing one of his newspapers. He has seen incidents of lawlessness in his village and few of his near ones could not be represented by a lawyer due to lack of funds.
This aroused interest in the legal field for him at an early age. He contacted IDIA Jharkhand Chapter through the newspaper clipping he read, and topped the State INAT exam. This was followed by his wonderful performance in CLAT that landed him at NUSRL. He graduated in the year 2017. Soon after his graduation, he went on an all-India cycle tour and in a period of four months he travelled about 6,500 Kilometres throughout the nation. In the General Election, 2019 he contested election from the Chatra Loksabha constituency as an independent candidate. Since July, 2019 he is practising law at the Jharkhand High Court in Ranchi. In these past years, he has been involved and fought legal battles against the infamous sand mafia in Jharkhand despite facing death threats. His life’s journey continues to be an inspiration for many, including us.
