Raghuraj Singh Shakya is an Indian politician and a member of 16th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh of India. He represents the Etawah constituency of Uttar Pradesh and is a member of the Bhartiya Janata Party.
Dara Singh Chauhan is an Indian politician who represented Madhuban in Uttar Pradesh as a member of Bharatiya Janata Party. He was former Cabinet Minister in Yogi Adityanath ministry. He also represented Ghosi in the 15th Lok Sabha,where he was leader of the Bahujan Samaj Party. In 16th Lok Sabha,he was defeated by Harinarayan Rajbhar who represented Bharatiya Janata Party by more than 140,000 votes.
Mulayam Singh Yadav was an Indian politician,a socialist figure and founder of the Samajwadi Party. Over the course of his political career spanning more than six decades,he served for three terms as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh,and also as the Union Minister of Defence in the Government of India. A long-time parliamentarian,he was a seven-time Member of Parliament representing Mainpuri,Azamgarh,Sambhal and Kannauj constituencies in the Lok Sabha,a ten-time member of the Legislative Assembly,member of the Legislative Council and the Leader of Opposition for several times as well. The veteran politician was a prominent figure of his time in Indian Politics,and was often referred to as Netaji and Dhartiputra by party leaders and workers. In 2023,the socialist leader was posthumously conferred with Padma Vibhushan,India’s second highest civilian award by the Government of India.
Anju Bala is an Indian politician who has been a Member of Lok Sabha for the Misrikh constituency since the 2014 Indian general election. Bala entered active politics in 2010 and was elected the Block Pramukh (president) of Mallawan. Three years later,she joined the Bharatiya Janata Party and was elected to the Lok Sabha the following year. She is a postgraduate in Hindi and Sanskrit. Her husband Krishna Kumar Singh is a former legislator in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly. In February 2022 she was expelled from Bharatiya Janata Party.
Keshav Prasad Maurya is an Indian politician,currently serving as the Deputy Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Maurya was associated with right wing Hindu organization Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh,before entering active politics through BJP. He was also involved in cow protectionism in his early life. Before 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly elections,he was made state president of the BJP,and after the victory of BJP,he was appointed as Deputy Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh in the first Yogi Adityanath Government. Maurya again contested the legislative assembly elections in 2022 from Sirathu Assembly constituency,losing to Pallavi Patel of Samajwadi Party. However,he was given second term as Deputy CM in the second Yogi Adityanath government.
Dinanath Bhaskar is an Indian politician active in the state of Uttar Pradesh. Once a close associate of Kanshi Ram,he was a founding member of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and was Minister for Health during the state's coalition government of the Samajwadi Party (SP) and BSP in 1993. He quit the BSP to join the SP in 1996,rejoined the BSP around 2009 and in 2015 joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Vedram Bhati is an Indian politician and a member of the 16th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh of India. A notable Gujjar leader from Uttar Pradesh,he represents the Jewar constituency of Uttar Pradesh and was a member of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) from 2002 to 2019 and later joined the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Alok Kumar Shakya is a member of the 14th,15th and Sixteenth Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh in India. He represents the Bhongaon constituency of Uttar Pradesh and is a member of the Samajwadi Party political party. In 2022,prior to by-election in Mainpuri Assembly constituency,Shakya was appointed as district president of Samajwadi Party for Mainpuri. This was done in a bid to secure the support of Shakya voters,who were the most populous group after Yadavs in this constituency. He has also served as a minister in Government of Uttar Pradesh.
Raj Kishor Singh is an Indian politician who served as a member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly for the state Samajwadi Party from 2002 to 2017. He was a minister for Panchayati raj. Before the government of Mulayam Singh,Mr Singh was also a cabinet minister.
Chaudhary Laxmi Narayan Singh is an Indian politician and member of 9th,13th,15th and 17th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh. And currently serving as Minister of Dairy Development,Animal Husbandry,Fisheries in Yogi Adityanath ministry. He represents the Chhata constituency as a candidate of the Bharatiya Janata Party in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly. He was previously a member of the Bahujan Samaj Party and was a cabinet minister in the government led by chief minister Mayawati.
Babina is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Babina in the Jhansi district of Uttar Pradesh,India. Babina is one of five assembly constituencies in the Jhansi Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008,this assembly constituency is numbered 222 amongst 403 constituencies.
Handia is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Handia in the Prayagraj district of Uttar Pradesh,India.
Ram Prasad Chaudhary is an Indian politician and a member of the 9th Lok Sabha,12th,13th,14th,15th and 16th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh. He represents the Kaptanganj constituency of Uttar Pradesh and is a member of the Samajwadi Party. He earlier also served as Minister of State in Mayawati cabinet (1997),Minister of Textile and silk industry in Kalyan Singh government (1997) and Minister of Food and Civil Supplies in Mayawati cabinet (2007–2012).
Gyanendra Singh is an Indian politician and a member of the 18th Uttar Pradesh Assembly,in India. Since 2017,he represents the Paniyara in Maharajganj district of Uttar Pradesh and is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Earlier he was also a member in 11th,13th and 14th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh from Shyamdeurawa,which was abolished after Delimitation order (2008).
Shakir Ali is an Indian politician and former cabinet minister in the Uttar Pradesh government. He served as the MLA from Pathardeva in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly after being elected in the 2012 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election as a Samajwadi Party candidate.
The Bhagidari Parivartan Morcha is a Political Alliance of All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen,Jan Adhikar Party of Babu Singh Kushwaha,Rashtriya Parivartan Morcha of Waman Meshram,Bahujan Mukti Party,Bhartiya Vanchit Samaj Party and Janata Kranti Party for 2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election. Morcha had promised Two Chief Ministers and Three Deputy Chief Ministers if they come to power. Morcha decided to support Candidates of Peace Party of India in February 2022.
Abhay Singh is an Indian politician and a member of 18th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh representing Goshainganj. He is a member of the Samajwadi Party and had represented Goshainganj in the 16th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh.
Asha Maurya is an Indian politician. She was elected to Mahmoodabad in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election as a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Kushwaha is a surname used by people of Koeri caste in Bihar. The Kushwahas are also known as Maurya,Shakya,Saini in various parts of north India. As per one opinion,the Kushwaha surname is also common among members of Kachhi caste,who later merged with the Koeris to become a single homogeneous community. They are a dominant OBC community,who comprise about 9% of the population of state of Bihar.
Ram Autar Shakya was an Indian politician based in Uttar Pradesh. He was elected to Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly twice from the Bhongaon Assembly constituency. Shakya was elected to Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly for the first time in 1991,as a candidate of Janata Party. In 1996 mid-term elections,he was elected to 13th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly,but this time,as a candidate of Samajwadi Party. The Bhongaon Assembly constituency was later represented by his son Alok Kumar Shakya,who represented this constituency thrice after death of his father.
