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{{Short description|Indian politician}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2024}}
{{Use Indian English|date=September 2024}}
{{infobox officeholder
| office = [[Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha]]
| term_start = 4 June 2024
| term_end =
| preceded = [[Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma]]
| constituency = [[Jalaun (Lok Sabha constituency)|Jalaun]]
| office1 = [[Uttar Pradesh Council of Ministers|Nominated Minister]]: [[Government of Uttar Pradesh]]
| term_start1 = 2007
| term_end1 = 2011
| party = [[Samajwadi Party]]
| occupation = [[Politician]]
}}

'''Narayan Das Ahirwar''' is an Indian politician from the [[Samajwadi Party]] (SP) and the [[Lok Sabha]] [[Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha|Member of Parliament]] representing [[Jalaun (Lok Sabha constituency)|Jalaun]]. He also served as minister in the [[Uttar Pradesh Government]] from 2007 to 2011.<ref name="amar ujala">{{cite news|url=https://www.amarujala.com/uttar-pradesh/jalaun/sp-made-former-bsp-minister-narayan-das-ahirwar-its-candidate-orai-news-c-224-1-ori1001-112303-2024-03-16|title=बसपा के पूर्व मंत्री रहे नारायण दास अहिरवार को सपा ने बनाया प्रत्याशी|work=Amar Ujala}}</ref> Ahirwar had started politics in 1982 inspired by [[Kanshi Ram]] and joined [[Dalit Shoshit Samaj Sangharsh Samiti|DSSSS]]. He was a founding member of the [[Bahujan Samaj Party]] and served in many organisational roles of the party. He became dissatisfied with the party policy after 2014, stopped taking major responsibilities and later started aligning with SP, helped strengthen it and officially joined the party in 2022. He contested as the SP and INDIA alliance candidate from [[Jalaun Lok Sabha constituency|Jalaun]] (SC) in the [[2024 Indian general election|2024 general election]] and was elected.<ref name="bhaskar">{{cite news|url=https://www.bhaskar.com/local/uttar-pradesh/jalaun/news/sp-fielded-narayan-das-from-jalaun-132734188.html |title=लंबे समय तक बसपा में रहे, माया सरकार में राज्य मंत्री बने, 2022 में थामा था सपा का दामन|trans-title= Was in BSP for a long time, became state minister in Maya Government, took responsibility in SP in 2022|work=Dainik Bhaskar}}</ref><ref name="Party changers {{!}} Shifting hues">{{cite news |date=13 July 2024 |title=Party changers {{!}} Shifting hues |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/cover-story/18th-lok-sabha-the-debutants/story/20240722-party-changers-shifting-hues-2565842-2024-07-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250302190555/https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/cover-story/18th-lok-sabha-the-debutants/story/20240722-party-changers-shifting-hues-2565842-2024-07-13 |archive-date=2 March 2025 |access-date=22 March 2025 |publisher=India Today |language=en}}</ref>

==Political life==
Narayan Das Ahirwar joined politics in 1982 inspired by [[Kanshi Ram]] and became a member of the [[Dalit Shoshit Samaj Sangharsh Samiti]] (DS4). He became one of the founding members of the [[Bahujan Samaj Party]] in 1984.<ref name="amar ujala"/><ref name="bhaskar"/>

From 1992 and 2000, he was chairperson of the BSP unit in [[Orai Assembly constituency|Orai]] constituency. He became the district president of the party in [[Jalaun district|Jalaun]] in 2002 and had a good performance in the state election of that year. In 2005, he was moved out of the post of district president and made the party in-charge of [[Madhogarh Assembly constituency|Konch]] constituency.<ref name="bhaskar"/>

He was the nominated minister of the [[Jal Nigam Board]] under the Government of Uttar Pradesh from 2007 to 2011, after the BSP formed a simple majority government in 2007. He was also made the zonal coordinator of the [[Bundelkhand]] division during this time.<ref name="bhaskar"/> He has also been the zonal coordinator of [[Kanpur division|Kanpur]], [[Varanasi division|Varanasi]], [[Devipatan division|Devipatan]], [[Azamgarh division|Azamgarh]] [[Gorakhpur division|Gorakhpur]], [[Basti division|Basti]] and [[Faizabad division|Faizabad]] in the years since.<ref name="bhaskar"/><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.amarujala.com/uttar-pradesh/jalaun/Jalaun-81723-39 | title=नारायणदास बने वाराणसी जोन के कोआर्डिनेटर }}</ref>

In 2013, he was given the responsibility of the BSP state unit of [[Uttarakhand]] and made the in-charge of [[Almora Assembly constituency]]. Between 2014 and 2022, he became distant from the BSP and stopped taking any major roles, coming into disagreement with the party's policy adopted after Modi came into power at the center. He also began aligning with the [[Samajwadi Party]] and helping strengthen it during this time.<ref name="bhaskar"/>

He formally left BSP and became a member of SP before the [[2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|2022 Uttar Pradesh election]] and was made the SP-INDIA alliance candidate for the [[Jalaun Lok Sabha constituency|Jalaun-Garautha-Bhognipur]] in the [[2024 Indian general election|2024 general election]].<ref name="amar ujala"/><ref name="bhaskar"/>

==Personal life==
Narayan Das Ahirwar is from [[Saidnagar]] village in Dakor block, in the [[Jalaun district]] of Uttar Pradesh. He is also a resident of Hal Niwas Rajendra Nagar.<ref name="amar ujala"/>

== References ==
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{{18th Lok Sabha members from Uttar Pradesh|state=expanded}}

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