Surya Pratap Shahi

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Rani Shahi
(m. 1973)
Surya Pratap Shahi
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Minister of Agriculture
Government of Uttar Pradesh
Assumed office
19 March 2017
Parents
  • Rajendra Kishor Shahi (father)
  • Ram Pyari Devi (mother)
Residence(s)Raghav Nagar, Deoria, Uttar Pradesh, India
Alma mater Banaras Hindu University
OccupationAgriculture, Advocate

Surya Pratap Shahi (born 23 December 1952) is an Indian politician. He is a Member of 9th, 11th, 13th, 17th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh and 18th Uttar Pradesh Assembly. Currently he is serving as Cabinet Minister in Uttar Pradesh Government with the portfolio of Agriculture, Agriculture Education and Agriculture Research. [1] He has worked as the president of Uttar Pradesh state unit in the past. He is one of those distinguished BJP leaders who won election in 1985 despite sympathy wave after assassination of Indira Gandhi in 1984. [2]

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Early life

Shahi was born on 23 December 1952 in Pakahan Village of Deoria district of Uttar Pradesh, India in a Bhumihar family. [3] He got his early education from GIC Deoria. He completed his graduation from B.R.D. Post Graduate College. Shahi got his LLB degree from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi in 1974. [4] His father Rajendra Kishor Shahi was District Sanchalak of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), who introduced him to the RSS at a very early age. Shahi was politically active since his student days. He contested and won the election of the student union in BHU. His uncle Ravindra Kishor Shahi was State President of Bhartiya Jana Sangh and a minister in the Uttar Pradesh government from 1977 to 1979. [5] Shahi was married in 1973 to Rani Shahi. He has three children- a son and two daughters.

Political career

Shahi contested the assembly election of Uttar Pradesh for first time in the year 1980. However, he got elected for first time as MLA from the 'Kasia' assembly seat in 1985. Second time he won the election was in 1991 and became the Minister of State for Home in the Uttar Pradesh government. After completing one year in the government he was elevated to the position of Cabinet Minister with the portfolio of Health and Family Welfare. In the year 1996, he again got elected as MLA. Surya Pratap Shahi held the office of Cabinet Minister in Uttar Pradesh government between 1997 and 2002 with the portfolio of Excise and Liquor Prohibition and currently he is a cabinet minister in Uttar Pradesh Government with the portfolio of Agriculture, Agriculture Education and Agriculture Research. [6]

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#FromToPositionComments 2March 2022till dateCabinet Minister for Agriculture, Agriculture Education and Agriculture Research
1March 2022IncumbentMember, 18th Uttar Pradesh Assembly
2March 2017March 2022Cabinet Minister for Agriculture, Agriculture Education and Agriculture Research
3March 2017March 2022Member, 17th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh [7]
4September 1997March 2002Cabinet Minister for Excise and Liquor Prohibition
5October 1996March 2002Member, 13th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh
6June 1991December 1992Cabinet Minister for Health and Family Welfare
7June 1991December 1992Member, 11th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh
8March 1985November 1989Member, 9th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh

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