Bhupender YadavBhupender Yadav is a senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader and member of Parliament representing the state of Rajasthan since 2012. Currently serving as the Union Minister of Labour and Employment and Minister of Environment, Forest and ClimateChange, he started as a student union leader and in 2000, was appointed General Secretary of the Akhil Bharatiya Adhivakta Parishad, a lawyers' organization, and remained in the position till 2009. A practising Supreme Court lawyer, he was appointed as the BJP's National Secretary in 2010 and took charge as National General Secretary in 2014. Previously the chairman/member of twenty-five Parliamentary Committees, Bhupender Yadav is also the co-author of the book Supreme Court on Forest Conservation and regularly expresses his views on issues of importance in newspapers and on news websites. Read More Read Less