Dara Singh Chauhan | |
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Minister of Prisons Government of Uttar Pradesh | |
Assumed office 5 March 2024 | |
Preceded by | Dharmveer Prajapati |
MLC,Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council | |
Assumed office 23 Jan 2024 | |
Preceded by | Dinesh Sharma |
Constituency | elected by Legislative Assembly members |
Minister of Forest,Environment,Zoological Garden Government of Uttar Pradesh | |
In office March 2017 –12 January 2022 | |
Chief Minister | Yogi Adityanath |
Preceded by | Durga Prasad Yadav |
MLA,Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
In office March 2017 –March 2022 | |
Preceded by | Umesh Pandey |
Constituency | Madhuban |
In office March 2022 –July 2023 | |
Preceded by | Vijay Rajbhar |
Succeeded by | Sudhakar Singh |
Constituency | Ghosi |
Member of Parliament in 15th Lok Sabha | |
In office May 2009 –May 2014 | |
Preceded by | Chandradeo Prasad Rajbhar |
Succeeded by | Harinarayan Rajbhar |
Constituency | Ghosi |
Member of Parliament,Rajya Sabha | |
In office 3 April 2000 –2 April 2006 | |
Constituency | Uttar Pradesh |
In office 30 November 1996 –02 April 2000 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Galvara,Azamgarh,Uttar Pradesh [1] | July 25,1963
Nationality | Indian |
Political party | Bharatiya Janata Party(2015–Jan 2022;July 2023–present) [2] |
Other political affiliations | Indian National Congress(before 1996) Samajwadi Party(1996-2007),(January 2022-July 2023) Bahujan Samaj Party(2007-2015) [3] |
Spouse | Disha Chauhan |
Children | 3 |
Parent | Ram Kishan Chauhan [4] |
Residence(s) | Raj Bhawan Colony,Lucknow,Uttar Pradesh |
Alma mater | High School |
Occupation | MLA |
Profession | Politician [4] |
Dara Singh Chauhan (born 25 July 1963) is an Indian politician,currently serving as member of legislative council, [5] and formerly represented the Madhuban (Assembly constituency) in Uttar Pradesh as a member of Bharatiya Janata Party. [6] [7] 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.
On 2 February 2015,he joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in the presence of party president Amit Shah in New Delhi. [8] [9]
Soon after he joined BJP,he was made BJP Chauhan Morcha President and given the ticket to fight the MLA Election from Madhuban Constituency,where many people were rallying to get BJP ticket. He won election from Madhuban Constituency by more than 30,000 votes and was able to grow saffron for first time in this constituency and become cabinet minister in U.P. government. [10]
Chauhan was born 25 July 1963 in Galvara village of Azamgarh district to his father Ram Kishan Chauhan. He married Disha Chauhan,they have two sons and two daughters. [1] In 1980,he attended the Madhyamik Shikasha Parishad Allahabad and attained High School education. [4] He is a senior backward caste politician,prominent in OBC [6] politics in Uttar Pradesh. [6]
Chauhan was elected Deputy Secretary in DAVPG College,Azamgarh as a student leader. After student politics,he remained active in mainstream politics as Indian National Congress office holder leader and joined Samajwadi Party in 1996 and got elected for Rajya Sabha. He was a Rajya Sabha member for two consecutive terms (1996-2000) and (2000-2006). He joined the Bahujan Samaj Party in 2007 after fall of Mulayam Singh Yadav's government in Uttar Pradesh and Mayawati became Chief Minister Of Uttar Pradesh. In the General Elections 2009,he was elected as a member of the Lok Sabha for the first time,defeating Chandradeo Prasad Rajbhar of Samajwadi Party as a candidate of Bahujan Samaj Party from Ghoshi Lok Sabha constituency. [11] [12] In 2015,he joined Bharatiya Janata Party, [13] and fought 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election from Madhuban Vidhansabha. After election he became Minister of Forest,Environment [14] and Zoological Garden in Government of Uttar Pradesh. On 12 Jan. 2022,he resigned from BJP and its ministry as he was well aware that he wouldn't get ticket from BJP to fight election due to his non-performance. [15] He joined Samajwadi Party. [16] [17] On 15 July 2023,he resigned from the post of MLA and left the Samajwadi Party and again joined the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. [18] in September 2023,he again contested as a BJP candidate from Ghosi (which fell vacant after his resignation) but lost the by-election by a huge margin of 42,759 votes. Samajwadi Party candidate Sudhakar Singh defeated him. [19]
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