His Excellency Bhupender Yadav is an environmentalist, politician and author, currently serving as the Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change and Labour. 

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, he 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.