Ram Prasad Chaudhary (born 15 November 1954) is an Indian politician and a member of the

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, 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

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. He earlier also served as

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(Independent charge) in

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cabinet (1997), Minister of Textile and silk industry in Kalyan Singh government (1997) and Minister of Food and Civil Supplies in

cabinet (2007–2012).

Early life and education

Chaudhary was born 15 November 1954 in Jigna village in the Basti district of

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to father Manik Ram Chaudhary. In 1978, he attained Diploma in civil and electrical engineering from Government Polytechnic College, Basti. Chaudhary is married to Kapura Devi, with whom he has a son and two daughters. His nephew

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has been also an MP from

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from 2009 to 2014 as a member of

Bahujan Samaj Party The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) is a national level political party in India that was formed to represent Bahujans (literally means "community in majority"), referring to Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and Other Backward Classes (OBC), a ...

Political career

Chaudhary started career as a Member of parliament in

from Khalilabad of Sant Kabir Nagar district as a member of

Janata Party The Janata Party ( JP, lit. ''People's Party'') was a political party that was founded as an amalgam of Indian political parties opposed to the Emergency that was imposed between 1975 and 1977 by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of the Indian Nat ...

. After 1993 he was regular five time continuously MLA of Kaptanganj (Assembly constituency) of Basti district till 2017. In Seventeenth Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh (2017) elections, he lost to

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candidate Chandra Prakash Shukla by a margin of 6,827 votes. In 2019 general elections, he was candidate of SP and BSP ( Mahagathbandhan) from Basti Lok Sabha seat. But he lost the election to BJP's

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by a margin of 30,354 (2.88%) votes. In November 2019, BSP supremo

expelled Chaudhary and three former MLAs from the party for indiscipline and anti-party activities. After the expulsion, Chaudhary joined the

along with his colleagues in the presence of

president

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Posts held

References

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