Naresh Bansal is an Indian politician and Member of Parliament from

Uttarakhand Uttarakhand ( , or ; , ), also known as Uttaranchal ( ; List of renamed places in India, the official name until 2007), is a States and union territories of India, state in the North India, northern part of India. It is often referred to as t ...

in the

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. He is a member of the

Bharatiya Janata Party The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; ; ) is a political party in India, and one of the two major List of political parties in India, Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. Since 2014, it has been the List of ruling p ...

. He is a former General Secretary (Organisation) of

Bharatiya Janata Party, Uttarakhand Bharatiya Janata Party, Uttarakhand or BJP Uttarakhand is a state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Uttarakhand. Mahendra Bhatt is the current president of BJP Uttarakhand. Electoral History Legislative Assembly election ...

and also previously served as its interim president. , he has been involved with party activities for over four decades.

Political career

Naresh Bansal joined the

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh ( ; , , ) is an Indian right-wing, Hindu nationalist, paramilitary volunteer organisation. The RSS is the progenitor and leader of a large body of organisations called the Sangh Parivar (Hindi for "Sangh family ...

(RSS), a Hindu nationalist organisation, at the age of eight, and remains an active member. Bansal has held a variety of positions with RSS. Between 1972 and 1974, he was the city treasurer of the RSS student council. In 2020, it was reported that he had headed the RSS’s disaster management panel for over 20 years. In 1977 Bansal was elected as district coordinator of student organization

Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) () is a right-wing all India student organisation affiliated to the Hindu nationalist organization Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). History The ABVP, founded in 1948 with the initiative of the RSS ...

(ABVP). He was also part of the

Hindu Jagran Manch Hindu Jagran Manch also Called as H.J.M (translation: Forum for Hindu Awakening) is an Indian Hindu activist group affiliated to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). It focuses on activism against religious conversion and works for the reconv ...

from 1980 to 1986. He worked at the government for some time before leaving to join the

. From 2002 to 2009, Bansal was the state general secretary (organisation) of the

, and served as its interim president. Prior to his election to the Rajya Sabha, Bansal was the vice-chairman of the state-level 20-point programme implementation committee. In 2012 Bansal was selected as a

candidate for BJP, ticket but later withdrew. On 2 November 2020 he was elected unopposed from Uttarakhand.

Political positions held

* 2002 - 2009: General Secretary (Organisation), Uttarakhand BJP * 2002 - 2009 : National Executive member BJP India. * 2009 - 2012: Chairman Housing and Development Council, Uttarakhand * 2012 - 2019 General secretary, Uttarakhand BJP * 2019 - 2020 oct 27 : Vice Chairman of the state-level 20-point programme implementation committee * 2020 - Till Date: Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha from Uttarakhand state.

References

Living people People from Dehradun district Rajya Sabha members from Uttarakhand Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Uttarakhand Rajya Sabha members from the Bharatiya Janata Party 1955 births {{Uttarakhand-BJP-politician-stub