Shiv Pratap Shukla

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Shiv Pratap Shukla
Minister of State for Finance
In office
3 September 2017 – 30 May 2019
Preceded bySantosh Gangwar
Succeeded byAnurag Thakur
MP of Rajya Sabha for Uttar Pradesh[1]
Assumed office
5 July 2016
Preceded byMukhtar Abbas Naqvi, BJP
ConstituencyUttar Pradesh
Vice President of Bharatiya Janata Party (U.P.)
Assumed office
2012
Minister for Jails, Uttar Pradesh
In office
1996–1998
Minister for Rural Development, Uttar Pradesh
In office
1998–2002
Member of Legislative Assembly, Uttar Pradesh
In office
1989–2002
Preceded bySunil Kumar Shastri
Succeeded byRadha Mohan Das Agarwal
ConstituencyGorakhpur
Personal details
Born (1952-04-01) 1 April 1952 (age 71)
Rudrapur, Uttar Pradesh, India
Political partyBharatiya Janata Party
ResidenceGorakhpur
Alma materGorakhpur University
OccupationLawyer

Shiv Pratap Shukla (born 1 April 1952) is an Indian politician and was the Minister of State for Finance in the First Modi ministry.[2] He is Member of Parliament in the upper house (Rajya Sabha) of the Indian Parliament. He represents the state of Uttar Pradesh.

Political career[edit]

ABVP to Bharatiya Janata Party[edit]

Shukla campaigned in the General Elections in 1989 and was elected a member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly, defeating Shri Sunil Shashtri of INC.[3] He was elected as Member of the Legislative Assembly four consecutive times in 1989, 1991, 1993 and 1996.[3]

Minister of state in the BJP government[edit]

Shukla was appointed as a state minister in Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led governments in Uttar Pradesh. He was appointed as the cabinet Minister for Jails[4][5][6] in 1996–1998 under Bharatiya Janata Party–Bahujan Samaj Party a short-lived coalition government of Mayawati & Kalyan Singh & later on appointed Minister for Rural Development [7] in year 1998–2002 under BJP government of Rajnath Singh.

References[edit]

  1. ↑ "Samajwadi Party Wins 7 Rajya Sabha Seats in UP, Kapil Sibal Emerges Victorious".
  2. ↑ "Shiv Pratap Shukla Gets Finance Ministry in PM Narendra Modi's Cabinet".
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Gorakhpur Election Results since 1977". Election Commission of India.
  4. ↑ "The Great Lucknow Circus". Frontline. 15–28 November 1997. Archived from the original on 18 October 2007.
  5. ↑ "Jailed gangster's reach gobsmacks UP police". Rediff. 17 December 1998.
  6. ↑ "BJP bandh stirs up trouble in UP towns". Rediff. 23 February 1998.
  7. ↑ R Swaminathan (22 February 2002). "Neither Ram nor Rahim, Gorakhpur voters seek solution to problem of floods". Rediff.

External links[edit]

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