R. K. Chaudhary is an Indian politician and currently serving Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha from the

Mohanlalganj Mohanlalganj is a tehsil and community development block in Lucknow district, Uttar Pradesh, India. It has historically constituted part of the village of Mau. History The eponymous market, called Mohanlalganj, was established in 1859 by Raja ...

. He is a member of 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 ...

. He served as Minister of Transport, Health, Science & Technology, Forest, Environment, Small Industry, Cooperative, Ambedkar Rural Development, Sports and Youth Welfare in the

Government of Uttar Pradesh The Government of Uttar Pradesh (International Organization for Standardization, ISO: ''Uttara Pradēśa Sarakāra''; often abbreviated as GoUP) is the subnational government of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh with the governor as its appoin ...

. He was two-time Leader of the House Legislative Council UP and four-time MLA and four-time cabinet minister.

Career

His political career started with the

Bahujan Samaj Party The Bahujan Samaj Party ( BSP) is a 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), along with Religious ...

under the leadership of

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 ...

. He is a founding member of BSP. He won the assembly seat from Manjhanpur (1993) and Mohanlalganj (1996) as an independent candidate in 2002 and 2007. In the next elections, he ran independently and lost by a small margin. He joined the

Congress Party The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party, or simply the Congress, is a political party in India with deep roots in most regions of India. Founded on 28 December 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement t ...

in 2019 and is seeking his first Lok Sabha election. He is known for his Ambedkarist and socialist ideas in a marginalised section of society. In the

2024 Indian general election General elections were held in Elections in India, India from 2024 elections in India, 19 April to 1 June 2024 in seven phases, to elect all List of constituencies of the Lok Sabha, 543 members of the Lok Sabha. Votes were counted and the res ...

Chaudhary won as the Member of Parliament from the

Lok Sabha constituency. RK Chaudhary defeated Union Minister and BJP candidate Kaushal Kishore from Mohanlalganj parliamentary seat by a margin of 70,292 votes.

References

Living people 1954 births Bahujan Samaj Party politicians from Uttar Pradesh Indian National Congress politicians from Uttar Pradesh Samajwadi Party politicians from Uttar Pradesh Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Avadh University alumni India MPs 2024–2029 Lok Sabha members from Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh MLAs 1993–1996 Uttar Pradesh MLAs 1997–2002 Uttar Pradesh MLAs 2002–2007 Uttar Pradesh MLAs 2007–2012 Independent politicians in India {{UttarPradesh-SP-politician-stub