Ram Murti Verma (born 1 January 1965) is an Indian politician and former Minister of Milk and Dairy development in the Uttar Pradesh government under Akhilesh Yadav ministry. As a member of the

Samajwadi Party The Samajwadi Party ( SP; ) is a Socialism, socialist political party in India. It was founded on 4 October 1992 by former Janata Dal politician Mulayam Singh Yadav and is headquartered in New Delhi. It is the third-largest political party in ...

, Verma represents the Tanda constituency in the 18th

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. Before that, he represented the Akbarpur constituency in the

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Early life and education

Verma was born on 1 January 1965 to Vasudev Verma in Dohripur village of

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in the state of

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. He enrolled for

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but did not complete his education. Verma married Sudama Devi in 1984, with whom he has two sons. Verma is an

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by occupation.

Political career

A member of the

, Verma won from the Akbarpur assembly constituency in the

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, serving as an MLA in the assembly from 2012 to 2017, before losing in 2017 by a small margin. In

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, Verma contested from the Tanda constituency instead of Akbarpur and won by 41,989 votes, defeating

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's Kapil Deo Verma with margin of 32097 votes. Verma had also served thrice as the district president of the Samajwadi Party. He also contested in the

2014 Lok Sabha election General elections were held in India in nine phases from 7 April to 12 May 2014 to elect the members of the 16th Lok Sabha. With 834 million registered voters, they were the largest-ever elections in the world until being surpassed by the 2019 ...

from Ambedkar Nagar constituency.

References

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