Dinesh Lal Yadav (born 2 February 1979), popularly known as Nirahua (an abiding husband), is an Indian actor, singer, producer and politician associated with Bhojpuri-language films.

[1] [2] [3] He owns the production house Nirahua Entertainment Pvt Ltd. Dinesh Lal Yadav was a contestant on Bigg Boss 6 in 2012.

He made his film debut in the Bhojpuri drama Humka Aisa Waisa Na Samjha (2006), and gained more popularity with his roles in Chalat Mushafir Moh Liyo Re (2006), Nirahuwa Rikshaw Wala (2008) and Pratigya (2008).

[8] He also did patriotic films like Patna Se Pakistan (2015) and Border (2018) which are one of the highest grossing Bhojpuri movies of all time.

But his first released movie was Chalat Musafir Moh Liyo Re (The traveller has been ensnared) in which he played the supporting role of a police inspector with Kalpana Patowary and Sunil Chhaila Bihari.

His third film was Ho Gail Ba Pyar Odhaniya Waali Se (I have fallen in love with a girl wearing stole, 2007).

His natural acting style, slim body unlike other Bhojpuri actor those days, and action moves due to his Karate training in his childhood, made him so popular among the audience that even his flop films used to run over three weeks.

In a review of his film Aulaad (2011), Times of India wrote that "Dinesh Lal Yadav has live up his role".

[23] Nirahua joined politics by becoming a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Lucknow on 27 March 2019 in presence of Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath.

[24][25] On 3 April 2019 he was declared a candidate to contest the 2019 Indian Lok Sabha election from Azamgarh constituency from Bharatiya Janata Party.

In 2022 bypolls from Azamgarh constituency, he defeated Samajwadi Party candidate Dharmendra Yadav by a margin of 8,700 votes.