Nitin Agrawal is an Indian politician, serving as Minister of State (Independent charge) for Excise & Liquor Prohibition in the State
Government of Uttar Pradesh
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. He is elected as a member of the
18th Legislative Assembly. He represents the
Hardoi constituency of Uttar Pradesh and is an elected member of the
Bharatiya Janata Party
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(BJP). He was elected as the Deputy Speaker of the
Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
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on 18 October 2021. He resigned from his post on 19
th January 2022.
Early life and education
Nitin Agrawal was born in
Hardoi district. He attended the
Symbiosis International Education Centre and
University of Delhi
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and attained
B.Com
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& MBA degrees. His father is
Naresh Chandra Agarwal who was
MLA from
Hardoi constituency for seven terms and also a member of the
Rajya Sabha
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from May 2012 to March 2018.
Political career
Nitin Agrawal has been MLA for three terms. He represented the Hardoi constituency and is a member of the Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP). He was elected in the by-election for the Hardoi constituency for his first term after the sitting MLA resigned to assume membership in the
Rajya Sabha
The Rajya Sabha, constitutionally the Council of States, is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of India. , it has a maximum membership of 245, of which 233 are elected by the legislatures of the states and union territories using si ...
.
Posts held
See also
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Hardoi (Assembly constituency)
Hardoi Assembly constituency is one of the 403 constituencies of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly, India. It is a part of the Hardoi district and one of the five assembly constituencies in the Hardoi Lok Sabha constituency. First elec ...
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18th Uttar Pradesh Assembly
The Eighteenth Uttar Pradesh Assembly (Eighteenth Vidhan Sabha of Uttar Pradesh) is formed by the members elected in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election. Elections at all the 403 seats of the Uttar Pradesh, state, were conducte ...
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Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
The Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly (Hindi: ''Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha'') is the lower house of the bicameral legislature of Uttar Pradesh. There are 403 seats in the house filled by direct election using a single-member first-past-the-p ...
References
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1981 births
Living people
People from Hardoi
Samajwadi Party politicians
Uttar Pradesh MLAs 2007–2012
Uttar Pradesh MLAs 2012–2017
Uttar Pradesh MLAs 2017–2022
Uttar Pradesh politicians
Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh MLAs 2022–2027