Ramapati Shastri is an Indian politician and a member of the 6th, 7th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, and

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. Currently, he is serving as Cabinet Minister of Social Welfare and Minister of SC & ST Welfare in the Yogi Adityanath government. He represents the Mankapur (Assembly constituency) in

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of Uttar Pradesh and is a member of the

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.He is also elected as Protem Speaker of 18th

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Early life and education

Shastri was born on 15 October 1952 in Bishnoharpur village of the

to his father Ram Laut who belongs to tanbina gotra of Kori/koli caste. He married Lt. Mangla Devi, with whom he has one son and one daughter. He passed

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and intermediate examination from Gandhi Inter College, Nawabganj. In 1984, he received the degree of Shastri from

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Political career

Shastri has been MLA for seven strength terms. In 1974, his first election, he became an MLA on the

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ticket from the Dixir reserved seat. He lost the elections to the Babulal of

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in 1980 and 1985. In 1989, he became MLA from

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for the third time. Fourth time after winning elections in Ramlahar in 1991, he was made a cabinet minister in

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's government. During this tenure, he held the Ministry of Social Welfare and Revenue Department. The fifth time he again won the election in 1993 from Diksir. In 1996, after winning for the sixth time he was again appointed Cabinet Minister for Medical Health and Family Welfare Department in the BJP government. In the 2002 election, he lost to SP's Babulal. During this time, the BJP made him the National President of the Scheduled Castes Morcha. In the 2007 election, he lost to

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candidate Ramesh Gautam. In 2012, the Dixir assembly seat came out of the reservation in the name of

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. This time Shastri contested from Balrampur Sadar and secured the seat, but lost. Since 2017, he has represented the Mankapur (Assembly constituency) in the

of Uttar Pradesh and is a member of the

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. In the 2017 elections, he defeated his nearest rival

candidate Ramesh Chandra Gautam by a record margin of 60,161 votes.

Posts held

References

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Early life and education

Political career

Posts held

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