Rajesh Tripathi
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Rajesh Tripathi is an Indian politician and a member of
18th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh 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 for 403 seats of the state, were conducted in seven phases from ...
representing Chillupar. He is a member of the
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, and had represented the Chillupar constituency as a member of the 15th and
16th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh The Sixteenth Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh (a.k.a. Sixteenth Vidhan Sabha of Uttar Pradesh) was constituted on 15 March 2012 as a result of 2012 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election held between 8 Feb to 3 March 2012. The Sixtee ...
.


Personal life

Tripathi was born to Shivakant Tripathi and hails from Chillupar in Gorakhpur district of
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. He did his graduation from
Deen Dayal Upadhyay Gorakhpur University Deen Dayal Upadhyay Gorakhpur University (formerly known as Gorakhpur University) is located in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh. The University of Gorakhpur is a teaching and residential-cum-affiliating University. It has en ...
in 1985.


Political career

Tripathi defeated
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Harishankar Tiwari in 2007 in the Uttar Pradesh assembly election, and repeated it again in 2012, becoming a member of the 15th and 16th Legislative Assemblies from Chillupar. In the 2017 election, Tripathi lost to Vinay Shankar Tiwari, son of Harishankar Tiwari. In the
2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election Legislative Assembly elections were held in Elections in Uttar Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh from 2022 elections in India, 10 February to 7 March 2022 in seven phases to elect all List of constituencies of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly, 403 m ...
, Tripathi defeated the junior Tiwari as a
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. BJP emerged out from Syama Prasad Mukherjee's ...
candidate from Chillupar.


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tripathi, Rajesh 1960s births Living people Uttar Pradesh MLAs 2022–2027 Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh MLAs 2007–2012 Uttar Pradesh MLAs 2012–2017