Rajpal Singh Baliyan is an Indian politician and member of the

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 for 403 seats of the Uttar Pradesh, state, were conducted in se ...

. Baliyan represented

Budhana (Assembly constituency) Budhana Assembly constituency is one of the 403 constituencies of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly, India. It is a part of the Muzaffarnagar district and one of the six assembly constituencies in the Muzaffarnagar Lok Sabha constituency. ...

constituency of

Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh ( ; UP) is a States and union territories of India, state in North India, northern India. With over 241 million inhabitants, it is the List of states and union territories of India by population, most populated state in In ...

and is a member of

Rashtriya Lok Dal Rashtriya Lok Dal ( RLD; ) is an Indian Regionalism (politics), regional political party in Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan. It was founded by Chaudhary Ajit Singh, son of the former prime minister of India, Chaudhary Charan Singh in 1996 as a brea ...

Political career

Rajpal Baliyan was a close aide of farmer leader Mahendra Singh Tikait and senior leader of

Bharatiya Kisan Union Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) ( English: Indian Farmers' Union) is a farmer's representative organisation in India. It was founded by Chaudhary Charan Singh from the ''Punjab Khetibari Union'' (Punjab Farming Union) which became its Punjab branc ...

in his early days. He is honest and respected personality in

Muzaffarnagar Muzaffarnagar (, ) is a city under Muzaffarnagar district in the Indian State of Uttar Pradesh. It is situated midway on the Delhi - Haridwar/Dehradun National Highway ( NH 58) and is also well connected with the national railway network. It ...

politics. Rajpal Baliyan was first elected as MLA from

Khatauli Assembly constituency Khatauli Assembly constituency is one of the 403 constituencies of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly, India. It is a part of the Muzaffarnagar district and one of the five assembly constituencies in the Muzaffarnagar Lok Sabha constituency. ...

in 1996 with the support of

defeating incumbent minister Sudhir Kumar Baliyan of

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 ...

by 37,790 votes. He was re-elected from the same seat in next election of 2002 defeating Pramod Tyagi of

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 ...

by 28,171 votes. In the 2007 election, he lost from

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 ...

candidate

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by 16,021 votes. After 5 years in 2012, he again lost from Nawazish Alam Khan of

by 10,000 votes. In 2017 election party chief Ajit Singh denied a ticket to him but he again got a ticket from the

Budhana Assembly constituency Budhana Assembly constituency is one of the 403 constituencies of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly, India. It is a part of the Muzaffarnagar district and one of the six assembly constituencies in the Muzaffarnagar Lok Sabha constituency. ...

in 2022. He won by huge margin this time defeating BJP's firebrand leader Umesh Malik by 28,310 votes.

References

{{improve categories, date=January 2022 1951 births Living people Uttar Pradesh MLAs 1997–2002 Uttar Pradesh MLAs 2002–2007 Uttar Pradesh MLAs 2022–2027 Rashtriya Lok Dal politicians