Ravinder Kumar Molhu (born Ravinder Kumar) is an Indian politician and member of the 15th and the

16th 16 (sixteen) is the natural number following 15 and preceding 17. 16 is a composite number, and a square number, being 42 = 4 × 4. It is the smallest number with exactly five divisors, its proper divisors being , , and . In English speech, ...

Legislative assemblies of

Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh (; , 'Northern Province') is a state in northern India. With over 200 million inhabitants, it is the most populated state in India as well as the most populous country subdivision in the world. It was established in 1950 ...

. Molhu is a member of the

Bahujan Samaj Party The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) is a national level 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), a ...

and represented

Rampur Maniharan Rampur Maniharan is a tehsil and a nagar palika in Saharanpur district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Rampur Maniharan is situated 15 km from Saharanpur on the NH 709B and has bus and rail connections to Delhi. There are several co ...

constituency of

during the

Sixteenth 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 ...

Early life and education

Ravinder Kumar Molhu was born in the village Hasanpur,

Saharanpur district Saharanpur district is the northernmost of the districts of Uttar Pradesh state, India. Bordering the states of Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, and close to the foothills of Shivalik range, it lies in the northern part of the Doab r ...

, India in 1969. His highest attained education is

high school A secondary school describes an institution that provides secondary education and also usually includes the building where this takes place. Some secondary schools provide both '' lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) and ''upper seconda ...

. Molhu belongs to the SC category and belongs to

chamar Chamar is a Dalit community classified as a Scheduled Caste under modern India's system of affirmative action. Historically subject to untouchability, they were traditionally outside the Hindu ritual ranking system of castes known as varna. ...

community. Prior to entering politics, he was an agriculturist by profession.

Political career

Ravinder Kumar Molhu has been a MLA for two straight terms (since 2007). During his first term, he contested from Nagal (Assembly constituency) (ceased to exist after "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008"). He currently represents

Rampur Maniharan (Assembly constituency) Rampur Maniharan Assembly constituency is one of the 403 constituencies of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly, India. It is a part of the Saharanpur district and one of the five assembly constituencies in the Saharanpur Lok Sabha constitue ...

and is a member of the

. In

Seventeenth Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh The Seventeenth Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh (Seventeenth Vidhan Sabha of Uttar Pradesh) was constituted on 19 March 2017 as a result of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, 2017 held between 11 February to 8 March 2017. The L ...

2017 he lost to

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

candidate

Devendra Kumar Nim Devender Kumar Nim is an Indian politician. He belongs to the Bharatiya Janata Party. He is a member of 18th Uttar Pradesh Assembly and was also Seventeenth Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh member representing the Rampur Maniharan constit ...

by a margin of 595 votes.

Posts held

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Early life and education

Political career

Posts held

See also

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