Narayan Das Ahirwar is an Indian politician from 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 ...

(SP) and the

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Member of Parliament representing

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. He also served as minister in the

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from 2007 to 2011. Ahirwar had started politics in 1982 inspired by

Kanshi Ram Kanshi Ram (15 March 1934 – 9 October 2006), also known as Bahujan Nayak or Manyavar, Sahab Kanshiram was an Indian politician and social reformer who worked for the upliftment and political mobilisation of the Bahujans, the backward or lowe ...

and joined DSSSS. He was a founding member of the

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and served in many organisational roles of the party. He became dissatisfied with the party policy after 2014, stopped taking major responsibilities and later started aligning with SP, helped strengthen it and officially joined the party in 2022. He contested as the SP and INDIA alliance candidate from

(SC) in the

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and was elected.

Political life

Narayan Das Ahirwar joined politics in 1982 inspired by

and became a member of the

Dalit Shoshit Samaj Sangharsh Samiti The Dalit Shoshit Samaj Sangharsh Samiti, abbreviated as DS4 or DSSSS ( lit. "Dalit and other Exploited Groups Struggle Committee") was founded in 1981 by Kanshi Ram to organise Dalits and other marginalised groups of India. Origins Kanshi R ...

(DS4). He became one of the founding members of the

in 1984. From 1992 and 2000, he was chairperson of the BSP unit in

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constituency. He became the district president of the party in

in 2002 and had a good performance in the state election of that year. In 2005, he was moved out of the post of district president and made the party in-charge of

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constituency. He was the nominated minister of the Jal Nigam Board under the Government of Uttar Pradesh from 2007 to 2011, after the BSP formed a simple majority government in 2007. He was also made the zonal coordinator of the

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division during this time. He has also been the zonal coordinator of

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, Devipatan,

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, Basti and

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in the years since. In 2013, he was given the responsibility of the BSP state unit of

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and made the in-charge of

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. Between 2014 and 2022, he became distant from the BSP and stopped taking any major roles, coming into disagreement with the party's policy adopted after Modi came into power at the center. He also began aligning with the

and helping strengthen it during this time. He formally left BSP and became a member of SP before the 2022 Uttar Pradesh election and was made the SP-INDIA alliance candidate for the Jalaun-Garautha-Bhognipur in the

Personal life

Narayan Das Ahirwar is from Saidnagar village in Dakor block, in the Jalaun district of Uttar Pradesh. He is also a resident of Hal Niwas Rajendra Nagar.

References

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