Hriday Narayan Dikshit
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Hriday Narayan Dikshit is an Indian politician and the current speaker of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly. He was member of Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth and Seventeenth Vidhan Sabha currently representing Bhagwantnagar (Assembly constituency) of Unnao district.
Hriday Narayan Dikshit | |
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| 17th Speaker of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
| In office 30 March 2017 – 28 March 2022 | |
| Chief Minister | Yogi Adityanath |
| Preceded by | Mata Prasad Pandey |
| Succeeded by | Satish Mahana |
| Member of Legislative Assembly, Uttar Pradesh | |
| In office 1985–1996 | |
| Constituency | Purwa |
| In office 11 March 2017 – 10 March 2022 | |
| Constituency | Bhagwantnagar |
| Member of Legislative Council, Uttar Pradesh | |
| In office 7 July 2010 – 6 July 2016 | |
| Constituency | Uttar Pradesh |
| Minister of Parliamentary Affairs & Panchayati Raj, Government of Uttar Pradesh | |
| In office 26 June 1995 – 18 October 1995 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 25 December 1946[citation needed] Unnao, United Provinces, British India[citation needed] |
| Political party | Bharatiya Janata Party |
CareerEdit
Hriday Narayan Dixit has become an MLA from Bhagwantnagar in Unnao district.[citation needed] He defeated BSP's Shashank Shekhar Singh by 53,366 votes.[citation needed]
Hriday Narayan Dixit is from Louva village of Purva tehsil in Unnao.[citation needed] He became an MLA in 1985 after contesting as an Independent.[citation needed] After this, in 1989, he became an MLA on a Janata Dal ticket. When he left the Janata Dal, he held on to the SP and in 1993 he was elected MLA for the third time after contesting the elections.[citation needed] In 1995, when the SP-BSP coalition government was there, he was the Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and the Minister of Panchayati Raj. After this, he was also a BJP Legislative Council member and party leader from 2010 to 2016. This time he won the Bhagwantnagar seat on a BJP ticket and became an MLA for the fourth time.[citation needed]
Emergency was imposed in the country from 26 June 1975 to 21 March 1977.[citation needed] During this time many leaders were put in jail.[citation needed] Then Hriday Narayan Dixit also went to jail. He was imprisoned for 19 months.[citation needed]
Hriday Narayan Dixit is also a writer. His articles have also been published in newspapers.[1][2][3]