Awadhesh Prasad

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Awadhesh Prasad
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
Incumbent
Assumed office
4 June 2024
Children7
Residence Sahadatt Ganj, Sadar, Ayodhya
Alma mater Lucknow University (LLB, 1968)
DAV College, Kanpur, Agra University (MA, 1966)

Awadhesh Prasad (born 31 July 1945) is an Indian politician who is a founding member of the Samajwadi Party (SP) and an MP in the 18th Lok Sabha representing Faizabad. [1] He is presently the general secretary of the national executive of SP and he was a member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly till 11 June 2024 when he was elected as an MP. [2] He has been a nine time MLA elected from the erstwhile Sohawal (SC) constituency in 1977, 1985, 1989, 1993, 1996, 2002 and 2007 and as of latest from Milkipur (SC) in 2012 and 2022. [3] He has become a minister for six times in the Government of Uttar Pradesh and been a cabinet minister in four of them. [1]

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Political career

Prasad, who comes from Pasi Dalit community, [4] began his political career at the age of 21. He was the Ayodhya district co-convener of the anti-Emergency Sangarsh Samiti. He was also the polling agent of the Lok Dal at Amethi during the 1977 Indian general election. He became the national secretary and was inducted into the central parliamentary board when the Samajwadi Party was founded in 1992. In the party, he has generally functioned as an organisation man since then. [1]

He became minister in the Janata Party governments of Ram Naresh Yadav and Babu Banarasi Das and in the Samajwadi Party governments of Mulayam Singh Yadav and Akhilesh Yadav. [1] He has a close association with the party president Akhilesh Yadav and was one of the few veteran leaders to have sided with him during the pre-2017 election leadership contest within the party. [2]

In the 2024 Indian general election Prasad won [5] as the Member of Parliament from the Faizabad Lok Sabha constituency. [6] This win has been seen as of deep interest within the 2024 Indian general election because it encompasses the city of Ayodhya where resides the Ram Temple which was set-up in the previous term (2019-2024). Analysts credited his win to failure of BJP's Abki Baar 400 Paar slogan and Samajwadi Party's strategy of leveraging social politics by capitalizing on the significant OBC voter base, including Kurmis and Yadavs, aligning OBCs, Dalits, and Muslims to edge out the BJP. [4]

Electoral record

Legislative Assembly

YearPartyConstituency NameResultVotes gainedVote share%Margin
1974 BKD SohawalLost18,87934.70%689
1977 JP Won28,09058.42%10,578
1980 JP(S) Lost21,93240.72%4,071
1985 LD Won27,37346.29%9,147
1989 JD Won29,41333.91%10,032
1991 JP Lost22,04724.90%9,643
1993 SP Won59,11551.77%16,496
1996 Won44,39935.17%3,407
2002 Won43,39835.36%8,156
2007 Won48,62433.08%9,871
2012 Milkipur Won73,80442.24%34,237
2017 Lost58,68429.77%28,276
2022 Won103,90547.99%13,338

Lok Sabha

YearPartyConstituency NameResultVotes gainedVote share%Margin
1996 SP Akbarpur Lost169,04627.12%30,749
2024 Faizabad (Ayodhya) Won554,28948.59%54,567

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  2. 1 2 "SP propping up Awadhesh Prasad as its Dalit face ahead of LS polls?". The Times of India.
  3. ↑ Singh, Banbir (31 January 2024). "बार के विधायक, Mulayam के करीबी दलित नेता... कौन हैं Awadhesh Prasad, जिन्हें सपा ने Faizabad से बनाया लोकसभा प्रत्याशी" [9 time MLA, Dalit leader close to Mulayam... Who is Awadhesh Prasad, whom SP made the Lok Sabha candidate from Ayodhya?]. Aaj Tak.
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