Forty-year-old Anupriya Patel, the president of Apna Dal – the BJP’s ally in Uttar Pradesh – is all set for her second stint in the central authorities. A champion of the cause of the backwards and disadvantaged sections, Patel was additionally a minister in the first tenure of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. As the Modi cupboard underwent a main reshuffle on July 7, Patel was inducted to the cupboard and he or she took oath as a Minister of State (MoS) in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry.
A member of Parliament from Mirzapur Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh, the seat was received consecutively be her in in 2014 and 2019. She served as the Union Minister of State in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare between 2016 and 2019. While her not being included in the Cabinet in 2019, when BJP got here to energy the second time, left her supporters disenchanted, some experiences claimed that Patel had herself declined the supply to be inducted as a minister of state once more.
However, all that’s now historical past as she has been sworn in the second time into Modi cupboard. Her induction in Cabinet, sources say, is signficant ahead of Assembly elections in UP, which might be held subsequent yr. The Mirzapur MP belongs to the Kurmi neighborhood, and the indisputable fact that the Other Backward Classes (OBC) have a sizeable quantity of voters in the key Purvanchal area, will affect the electoral arithmetic not simply in subsequent yr’s Assembly polls but in addition the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
“We have demanded the formation of a ministry for OBCs on the lines of the Ministry of Minorities to solve the problems of the backward classes,” she had mentioned at a assembly of social gathering staff on the 72nd delivery anniversary of Apna Dal founder Sonelal Patel earlier this month. She is the daughter of Sone Lal Patel – who based the Apna Dal social gathering aside parting methods with BSP founder Kanshiram. Patel has been saying that although they’re getting their share in the administration, nonetheless the hole of inequality is big. “We have to struggle a lot to bridge it,” she mentioned, whereas making a demand for the organising of a nationwide memorial to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel in Delhi.
Her social gathering has been constantly elevating its voice in Parliament for resolving the issues of farmers and correct implementation of the Swaminathan Commission suggestions in order that they may get a honest value for his or her produce. The buzz that she may very well be accommodated in the Union ministry grew louder after she not too long ago met the BJP brass in New Delhi after staying away from the corridors of energy ever since the NDA launched into its second time period in 2019.
Patel pursued her greater schooling from Lady Shri Ram College for Women in Delhi and Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University, previously Kanpur University. She holds a grasp’s diploma in psychology and in addition Masters in Business Administration. Before profitable the Mirzapur Lok Sabha seat in 2014, in 2012 Patel was elected as the member of Uttar Pradesh meeting from the Rohaniya seat, which falls in Varanasi district.
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