Kalyan Singh was an Indian politician and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He served twice as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and as a Member of Parliament. He was the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh during the demolition of the Babri Masjid in December 1992. He was considered an icon of Hindu nationalism,and of the agitation to build a Ram temple in Ayodhya.
Akhilesh Singh Yadav is an Indian politician and national president of the Samajwadi Party who served as the 20th Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh from 2012 to 2017. Having assumed office on 15 March 2012 at the age of 38,he is the youngest person to have held the office. Yadav is the Member of Parliament for Azamgarh in the 17th Lok Sabha,being elected in 2019.
Jitin Prasada is an Indian politician from India appointed as Cabinet minister by State Govt. of Uttar Pradesh on 26 September 2021. Earlier,he has been the former Minister of State for Human Resource Department,Government of India. He was representing Dhaurahra of district Lakhimpur Kheri,Uttar Pradesh in 15th Lok Sabha,where he won by 184,509 votes. On 9 June,2021 Jitin Prasad quit the Indian National Congress and joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in the presence of senior BJP leader Piyush Goyal.
Zafar Ali Naqvi is an Indian politician and Former Member of parliament,Lok Sabha,From Lakhimpur Kheri constituency. His political party is the Indian National Congress. He was also cabinet minister for Home and Environment in UP Government.
Jayant Singh Chaudhary is an Indian politician who was a member of the Indian Parliament for Mathura from 2009–2014.
Dhaurahra Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 80 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Uttar Pradesh state in northern India. This constituency,spread over Lakhimpur Kheri and Sitapur districts came into existence in 2008 as a part of the implementation of delimitation of parliamentary constituencies based on the recommendations of the Delimitation Commission of India constituted in 2002.
Tikunia is a nagar panchayat in Lakhimpur Kheri district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Khairatiya village is near about 10 km from tikunia in the east side.
Lakhimpur Kheri district is further divided in following sub categories:
P. V. Midhun Reddy is an Indian politician who is the current Member of Parliament in the 16th Lok Sabha and 17th Lok Sabha from Rajampet constituency. He acts as the panel speaker of Lok Sabha representing the YSR Congress Party and YSR Congress Party Lok Sabha floor leader.
Palia Assembly constituency is one of the 403 constituencies of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly,India. It is a part of the Lakhimpur district and one of the five assembly constituencies in the Kheri. First election in this assembly constituency was held in 1962 after the "DPACO (1961)" was passed in 1961. After the "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order" was passed in 2008,the constituency was assigned identification number 137.
Nighasan Assembly constituency is one of the 403 constituencies of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly,India. It is a part of the Lakhimpur Kheri district and one of the five assembly constituencies in the Kheri. First election in this assembly constituency was held in 1957 after the "DPACO (1956)" was passed in 1956. After the "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order" was passed in 2008,the constituency was assigned identification number 138.
Gola Gokrannath Assembly constituency is one of the 403 constituencies of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly,India. It is a part of the Lakhimpur district and one of the five assembly constituencies in the Kheri. The first election in this assembly constituency was held in 2012 after the "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order,2008" was passed and the constituency was formed in 2008. The constituency is assigned identification number 139.
Sri Nagar Assembly constituency is one of the 403 constituencies of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly,India. It is a part of the Lakhimpur district and one of the five assembly constituencies in the Kheri. First election in this assembly constituency was held in 1957 after the "DPACO (1956)" was passed in 1956. After the "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order" was passed in 2008,the constituency was assigned identification number 140.
Krishna Gopal Patel is an Indian politician and a member of the Sixteenth Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh in India. He represents the Nighasan constituency of Uttar Pradesh and is a member of the Samajwadi Party political party.
Lakhimpur Assembly constituency is one of the 403 constituencies of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly,India. It is a part of the Lakhimpur district and one of the five assembly constituencies in the Kheri. First election in this assembly constituency was held in 1952 after the "DPACO (1951)" was passed in 1951. After the "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order" was passed in 2008,the constituency was assigned identification number 142.
Kasta Assembly constituency is one of the 403 constituencies of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly,India. It is a part of the Lakhimpur district and one of the five assembly constituencies in the Dhaurahra. First election in this assembly constituency was held in 2012 after the "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order,2008" was passed and the constituency was formed in 2008. The constituency is assigned identification number 143.
Mohammdi Assembly constituency is one of the 403 constituencies of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly,India. It is a part of the Lakhimpur district and one of the five assembly constituencies in the Dhaurahra. First election in this assembly constituency was held in 1957 after the "DPACO (1956)" was passed in 1956. After the "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order" was passed in 2008,the constituency was assigned identification number 144.
Nirvendra Kumar Mishra,also known as Munna,(1944/1945–2020) was an Indian politician. He was a member of the Samajwadi Party and a member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly representing Nighasan constituency. He died on 6 September 2020 in Lakhimpur Kheri.
Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM),formed in November 2020,is a coalition of over forty Indian farmers' unions to coordinate satyagragh against the three farm acts initiated in September of the same year.
Lakhimpur Kheri violence was a vehicle-ramming attack and mob lynching incident during farmers’protest against the three farm laws passed by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led Union Government. It happened on 3 October 2021 at Banbirpur village near Tikunia in Lakhimpur Kheri district,Uttar Pradesh,India,resulting in deaths of eight people and injuries to ten others. Four protesters and a journalist were run over by the car,three others were lynched by protestors in the subsequent violence.
