Om Prakash Yadav (born 23 March 1963) is an Indian politician and National Vice-President of Bharatiya Janata Party Kisan Morcha.

[1] Yadav was a member and contested elections for Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal (United) party.

Subsequently there was widespread violence against his the-then JD-U party Om Prakash Yadav himself had to flee his hometown of Lalji near Siwan, and wait out the ganglord's anger while the newly elected state government worked on providing him security.

Also, since Nitish Kumar came to power in Bihar in 2005, he set up fast track courts that have sent 14,000 criminals to jail, and the atmosphere of intimidation appears to have eased up considerably.

[8] So much so, that even criminal-politicians put up JD-U - Prabhunath Singh of Maharajganj and Vijay Kumar Shukla of Vaishali, also lost.