Awadhesh Prasad
Awadhesh Prasad | |
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Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha | |
Assumed office 4 June 2024 | |
Preceded by | Lallu Singh |
Constituency | Faizabad |
Member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
In office 10 March 2022 – 11 June 2024 | |
Preceded by | Baba Gorakhnath, BJP |
Succeeded by | TBA |
Constituency | Milkipur (SC) |
In office 2012–2017 | |
Preceded by | New constituency |
Succeeded by | Baba Gorakhnath, BJP |
Constituency | Milkipur (SC) |
In office 1993–2012 | |
Preceded by | Ramu Priyadarshi, BJP |
Succeeded by | Delimitation |
Constituency | Sohawal (SC) |
In office 1985–1991 | |
Preceded by | Madho Prasad, INC(I) |
Succeeded by | Ramu Priyadarshi, BJP |
Constituency | Sohawal (SC) |
In office 1977–1980 | |
Preceded by | Hub Raj, INC |
Succeeded by | Madho Prasad, INC(I) |
Constituency | Sohawal (SC) |
Personal details | |
Born | Bikapur, United Provinces, British India | 31 July 1945
Political party | Samajwadi Party |
Children | 2 |
Residence | Bikapur |
Alma mater | Lucknow University (LLB, 1968) DAV College, Kanpur, Agra University (MA, 1966) |
Awadhesh Prasad (born 31 July 1945) is an Indian politician serving as the Lok Sabha Member of Parliament from Faizabad and a founding member of the Samajwadi Party (SP).[1] He is presently the general secretary of the national executive of SP and he was a member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly till 4 June 2024 when he was elected as an MP.[2] He has been a nine time MLA elected from the erstwhile Sohawal (SC) constituency in 1977, 1985, 1989, 1993, 1996, 2002 and 2007 and as of latest from Milkipur (SC) in 2012 and 2022.[3] He has become a minister for six times in the Government of Uttar Pradesh and been a cabinet minister in four of them.[1]
Political career
[edit]Prasad, who comes from Pasi Dalit community,[4] began his political career at the age of 21. He was the Ayodhya district co-convener of the anti-Emergency Sangarsh Samiti. He was also the polling agent of the Lok Dal at Amethi during the 1977 Indian general election. He became the national secretary and was inducted into the central parliamentary board when the Samajwadi Party was founded in 1992. In the party, he has generally functioned as an organisation man since then.[1]
He became minister in the Janata Party governments of Ram Naresh Yadav and Babu Banarasi Das and in the Samajwadi Party governments of Mulayam Singh Yadav and Akhilesh Yadav.[1] He has a close association with the party president Akhilesh Yadav and was one of the few veteran leaders to have sided with him during the pre-2017 election leadership contest within the party.[2]
In the 2024 Indian general election Prasad won [5] as the Member of Parliament from the Faizabad Lok Sabha constituency.[6] This win has been seen as of deep interest within the 2024 Indian general election because it encompasses the city of Ayodhya where resides the Ram Temple which was set-up in the previous term (2019-2024). Analysts credited his win to failure of BJP's Abki Baar 400 Paar slogan and Samajwadi Party's strategy of leveraging social politics by capitalizing on the significant OBC voter base, including Kurmis and Yadavs, aligning OBCs, Dalits, and Muslims to edge out the BJP.[4]
Electoral record
[edit]Legislative Assembly
[edit]Year | Party | Constituency Name | Result | Votes gained | Vote share% | Margin | |
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1974 | BKD | Sohawal | Lost | 18,879 | 34.70% | 689 | |
1977 | JP | Won | 28,090 | 58.42% | 10,578 | ||
1980 | JP(S) | Lost | 21,932 | 40.72% | 4,071 | ||
1985 | LD | Won | 27,373 | 46.29% | 9,147 | ||
1989 | JD | Won | 29,413 | 33.91% | 10,032 | ||
1991 | JP | Lost | 22,047 | 24.90% | 9,643 | ||
1993 | SP | Won | 59,115 | 51.77% | 16,496 | ||
1996 | Won | 44,399 | 35.17% | 3,407 | |||
2002 | Won | 43,398 | 35.36% | 8,156 | |||
2007 | Won | 48,624 | 33.08% | 9,871 | |||
2012 | Milkipur | Won | 73,804 | 42.24% | 34,237 | ||
2017 | Lost | 58,684 | 29.77% | 28,276 | |||
2022 | Won | 103,905 | 47.99% | 13,338 |
Lok Sabha
[edit]Year | Party | Constituency Name | Result | Votes gained | Vote share% | Margin | |
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1996 | SP | Akbarpur | Lost | 169,046 | 27.12% | 30,749 | |
2024 | Faizabad (Ayodhya) | Won | 554,289 | 48.59% | 47,935 |
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d Verma, Lalmani (4 April 2023). "For its Dalit outreach, SP puts forward Ayodhya leader with long party, electoral record". The Indian Express.
- ^ a b "SP propping up Awadhesh Prasad as its Dalit face ahead of LS polls?". The Times of India.
- ^ Singh, Banbir (31 January 2024). "बार के विधायक, Mulayam के करीबी दलित नेता... कौन हैं Awadhesh Prasad, जिन्हें सपा ने Faizabad से बनाया लोकसभा प्रत्याशी" [9 time MLA, Dalit leader close to Mulayam... Who is Awadhesh Prasad, whom SP made the Lok Sabha candidate from Ayodhya?]. Aaj Tak.
- ^ a b "What went wrong for BJP in Ayodhya? Decoding the political shocker". India Today. Retrieved 6 June 2024.
- ^ https://results.eci.gov.in/PcResultGenJune2024/candidateswise-S2454.htm
- ^ "Ayodhya, Kanpur, Gorakhpur and Gonda seats results LIVE updates: SP leads in Ayodhya as BJP's Lallu Singh falls behind". Retrieved 4 June 2024.
- 1945 births
- University of Lucknow alumni
- Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar University alumni
- Living people
- Samajwadi Party politicians
- Uttar Pradesh MLAs 1977–1980
- Uttar Pradesh MLAs 1985–1989
- Uttar Pradesh MLAs 1989–1991
- Uttar Pradesh MLAs 1993–1996
- Uttar Pradesh MLAs 1997–2002
- Uttar Pradesh MLAs 2002–2007
- Uttar Pradesh MLAs 2007–2012
- Uttar Pradesh MLAs 2012–2017
- Uttar Pradesh MLAs 2022–2027
- India MPs 2024–2029