Ramakant Yadav (born 1 July 1957) is an Indian gangster and politician belonging to the Samajwadi Party and currently serving as Member of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly representing Phoolpur Pawai and former Member of Lok Sabha representing Azamgarh. He is also known by names like Sher-e-Purvanchal and RKY, he is considered one of the Bahubali ( Strongest leader) of Uttar Pradesh. He is younger brother of Umakant Yadav.
Ramakant Yadav switched from the Samajwadi Party to the Bahujan Samaj Party in 2004 parliament elections, before finally joining the Bharatiya Janata Party in 2008. Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav fought member of parliament election against Ramakant Yadav and was able to win with very low margin.
In 2009, he won from Azamgarh Lok Sabha as a BJP candidate.
He has a brother named Umakant Yadav, former BSP MP. One of his sons Arun Kumar Yadav is former BJP MLA from Phoolpur Pawai in Azamgarh district of Uttar Pradesh. In 2019 he contested from Bhadohi Lok Sabha constituency Loksabha seat on the Congress Party ticket but faced humiliating defeat. He got only 25000 votes. In the 2022 assembly elections, he defeated his opponent Ramsoorat Rajbhar by 25000 votes and worked to win 10 seats of Azamgarh.