Satish Poonia | |
---|---|
State President of Bharatiya Janata Party for Rajasthan | |
In office 15 September 2019 –23 March 2023 | |
Preceded by | Madan Lal Saini |
Succeeded by | Chandra Prakash Joshi |
Deputy Leader of the Opposition, Rajasthan Legislative Assembly | |
In office 2 April 2023 –3 December 2023 | |
Preceded by | Rajendra Singh Rathore |
Member of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly | |
In office 11 December 2018 –3 December 2023 | |
Preceded by | Naveen Pilania |
Succeeded by | Prashant Sharma |
Constituency | Amber |
Personal details | |
Born | Rajgarh,Rajasthan,India | 24 October 1964
Political party | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Profession | Politician |
Website | Dr Satish Poonia |
Satish Subhashchandra Poonia (born 24 October 1964) is an Indian politician. He was member of the 15th Rajasthan Assembly from Amber. He served as the state president of Bharatiya Janata Party for Rajasthan. He briefly also served as deputy leader of the opposition in Rajasthan Assembly. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Poonia was born on 24 October 1964 in Rajgarh,a small village in Churu district of Rajasthan. His father,Late. Shri Subhash Chandra Poonia was the former head of Rajgarh Panchayat Samiti. His mother is Smt. Parmeshwari Devi. His uncle Late Shri Ramswaroop Poonia was a freedom fighter and an associate of Chaudhary Kumbha Ram Arya,a freedom fighter of the Bikaner division and the then leader of the Praja Parishad movement. He is married to Mrs. Mohini Poonia,a teacher by profession and they have two children;son,Maheep Poonia and daughter,Anushka Poonia.
Poonia early education was completed in Rajgarh,after which he completed his further studies from Churu. He graduated from Maharaja College in the year 1989. After this he did L.L.B from Rajasthan University. He holds a Diploma in Labor Law,Criminology and Indian History and Culture from Law College. In 1994,he finished M.Sc. in Geography and after that did PhD in geography from Rajasthan University.
Poonia,influenced by the nationalist ideology of the RSS,he joined Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) in 1982. Over the next decade he worked in ABVP as Metropolitan Co-Secretary,State Co-Secretary,Metropolitan Secretary,and Pradesh Mantri in the Unit President at Maharaja College in Jaipur.
From 1988 to 1989,he played a very important role in the student union election movement at Rajasthan University and in the educational reform movement of ABVP. In 1989,he became the General Secretary of the Student Union at Rajasthan University and led agitation against Bofors scandal,and was also jailed during this period.
In 1992,he became the state general secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha and successfully organised the historic youth conference in Kota. He was made the State President of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha,Rajasthan in 1998. After the Bharatiya Janata Party's defeat in Rajasthan in 1998,he undertook a 550 km padyatra from 14 March to 7 April. This was the first such journey in Rajasthan's political history and still holds the record of being the only such yatra by any politician. He took this padayatra to boost the morale of workers covering 34 assembly constituencies,9 Lok Sabha constituencies,225 villages. [5]
Poonia worked as State General Secretary in Bharatiya Janata Party,Rajasthan from 2004 to 2006 and as State Morcha in charge from 2006 to 2007. He has been the State General Secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Party four times from 2004 to 2014 with various organisational responsibilities,from intensive migration from remote tribal areas to marginal desert areas,strengthening the party from village to village,and successfully led various political movements.
In the year 2011,he was the convener of senior BJP leader L.K. Advani’s Jan Chetna Yatra. In 2013,contributed to the successful running of “Suraj Sankalp Yatra 2013”by then BJP State President Smt. Vasundhara Raje. He played a very important role in the Haryana Vidhan Sabha elections of 2010 and 2015.
In the 2018 Rajasthan Legislative Assembly election,he secured victory in the Amber constituency. He defeated Prashant Sharma of the Indian National Congress (INC) by a margin of 13,276 votes. [6]
On 5 July 2023,he was announced as the state in-charge for Haryana for upcoming assembly polls. [7]
In his Amber Assembly constituency his focus is on education,healthcare,roads and transportation,and clean drinking water. In his tenure through the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan,an amount of Rs 1.75 crore has been utilised for the development of various schools' infrastructure in the region. His focus is mainly on reviving girls' education in his constituency and the state. In his constituency,he has constructed toilets for girls. To strengthen the medical facilities in the Amber constituency,more than Rs. 150 lakh have been spent from MLA-LAD. He has constructed a community healthcare centre worth Rs 5.25 crore in his constituency. Under his visionary leadership,he has sanctioned works related to clean drinking water amounting to Rs. 250 lakh.
Dr. Satish Poonia launched a campaign named ‘Public Service’to help the people fight the pandemic. Through this campaign,more than 2.5 lakhs of his party workers helped in collecting 40,000 units of blood voluntarily and the party workers prepared nearly 10 lakh food packets along with 3.25 lakh ration kits distributed to Covid-19 affected people. Through his efforts he connected with over 75,000 people and helped them in whatever way he could.
Vasundhara Raje Scindia is an Indian politician,who has held two terms as the chief minister of Rajasthan. She was previously a minister in the Union Cabinet of Atal Bihari Vajpayee and was India's first Minister of Small Scale Industries and Agro and Rural Industries,which now known as Micro,Small and Medium Enterprises. In 2003,she became the first woman to serve as the Chief Minister for the state of Rajasthan. She is currently one of the national vice presidents of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). A member of the Scindia family,she is also the matriarch of the Bamraulia family of Dholpur.
Churu is a district of the Indian state of Rajasthan in northern India.
Ghanshyam Tiwari is an Indian politician who has served as the MLA of the Sanganer constituency,located in Rajasthan between 2013 and 2018. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. 6 time MLA Tiwari has been winning for the last three consecutive elections from the same constituency. He is one of the prominent leaders of Rajasthan who have played significant roles in the establishment of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Narpat Singh Rajvi is a five-time sitting Member of Legislative Assembly from Vidhyadhar Nagar constituency representing Bharatiya Janata Party and a senior politician from the Indian state of Rajasthan.
Politics of Rajasthan is mainly dominated by two parties,the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Indian National Congress. The current government in Rajasthan is that of the Bhartiya Janata Party and Bhajan Lal Sharma is the Chief Minister.
Gangapuram Kishan Reddy is an Indian politician who serving as the 25th Minister of Coal &45th Minister of Mines since 2024. He also served as Minister of Tourism,Culture and Development of North Eastern Region of India from 2019 to 2024. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party since 1980. He is an MP representing Secunderabad since 2019. He served as the floor leader of the BJP in the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly in 2009 and gave it up after being elected as the state BJP president of erstwhile Andhra Pradesh. He was first state president of Telangana BJP from 2014 to 2016,appointed again as Telangana BJP president on 4 July 2023.
Rajendra Rathore is an Indian politician who served as leader of opposition in Rajasthan Legislative Assembly. He is a former Member of Rajasthan Legislative Assembly from Churu. He lost 2023 Rajasthan Assembly Elections to senior Jat leader Narendra Budhania of Congress party from Taranagar constituency.
Jai Narayan Poonia was a Cabinet Minister and leader of Rajasthan in India. He served as Minister of Public Works. He was born in village Lakhlan Choti of district Churu in Rajasthan,into the family of Choudhary Jagmal Poonia of the Hindu Jat clan. He married Manbhari Devi.
Legislative Assembly elections were held in the Indian state of Rajasthan on 1 December 2013. Results were announced on 8 December. The incumbent ruling party Indian National Congress,led by the Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot,lost the elections to Vasundhara Raje-led BJP,who was being touted as the next incumbent.
Mahant Chandnath was an Indian politician and religious leader. He represented the Alwar Seat in the Parliament of India and was also the head of the Nath sect of Hinduism. He took ordination from Mahant Shreyonath in 1978.
Bharatiya Janata Party,Rajasthan is a state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Rajasthan. Chandra Prakash Joshi is the current president of the BJP Rajasthan. Vasundhara Raje was the previous Chief Minister of Rajasthan during 2013–2018,previously she served in the same post from 2003 to 2008. She was the first female Chief Minister of Rajasthan. And the former president of the BJP Rajasthan.
Om Prakash Dhankar also known as O. P. Dhankar,is an Indian politician and social activist,belonging to the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) and formerly is the President of Bhartiya Janata Party,Haryana. He was a Cabinet Minister in the BJP run Government of Haryana till 2019.
Anil Vij is an Indian politician belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party formerly served as the Cabinet Minister in the Government of Haryana.
Vasudev Devnani is an Indian politician from Rajasthan serving as the speaker of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly. He is also an MLA from Ajmer North. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Vasudev Devnani is the first Sindhi to become speaker in Rajasthan assembly.
V Satish is the Indian politician and the National Organiser of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Currently he is in-charge of West-Zone and Andhra Pradesh,Bharitya Janata Party. He is Full-time Worker,Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and has been the senior functionary for the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.
On 12 July 2020,around 19 members of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly,as claimed by the then Deputy Chief Minister of Rajasthan Sachin Pilot,flew to Delhi after disputes over different offices between rival factions of the Rajasthan Pradesh Congress Committee,starting a governmental crisis in the state of Rajasthan.
Raj Kumar Rinwa is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party from Churu district in Rajasthan,India. He was a Member of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly from Ratangarh constituency in 2003,2008 and 2013.
Bhajan Lal Sharma is an Indian politician serving as the 14th and current chief minister of Rajasthan since December 2023. He is a member of the 16th Rajasthan Legislative Assembly,representing the Sanganer constituency. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Madan Rathore is an Indian politician from Rajasthan who served as a member of Rajasthan Legislative Assembly from Sumerpur constituency for two non-consecutive terms. A member of Bharatiya Janata Party,he is serving as member of Rajya Sabha from Rajasthan state since 2024.
Subhash Poonia is an Indian politician who served as member of Rajasthan Legislative Assembly representing Surajgarh Assembly constituency. He is a member of Bhartiya Janata Party. He is an agriculturist by profession. He also served as vice-president of Bhartiya Janata Party Kisan Morcha,Rajasthan.