Several MPs from Uttar Pradesh were included in the Modi cabinet on Wednesday. However, the most interesting name was that of Satya Pal Singh Baghel, BJP MP from Agra.
Former Sub Inspector in Uttar Pradesh Police Prof. SP Singh Baghel is a big name in the political world today.
Baghel got a chance to save the then Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav while in the police and from here his fortunes started changing. He was the Personal Security Officer (PSO) to the Chief Minister and thereafter became the Samajwadi Lok Sabha MP from Jalesar in 1998, 1999 and 2004. In 2014, Baghel went to the Rajya Sabha from the Bahujan Samaj Party. In 2017, he won the assembly election from Tundla on a BJP ticket and was made a cabinet minister in the state government. Later BJP gave him ticket from Agra and won.
Baghel hails from Bhatpura in Auraiya district of Uttar Pradesh. His father Rambharose Singh was posted in the Madhya Pradesh Police Department. After Mulayam Singh Yadav became the Chief Minister in 1989, Baghel joined Mulayam’s security, but on the strength of his bravery, hard work and honesty, he also won Mulayam’s heart. Mulayam fielded him for the first time in 1998 as a Samajwadi Party candidate from Jalesar seat and he won. After that he was elected MP twice.
In 2010, the BSP sent him to the Rajya Sabha. Also given the responsibility of National General Secretary. In 2014, Baghel lost the Firozabad Lok Sabha seat to the son of SP national general secretary Ram Gopal Yadav. He resigned from Rajya Sabha and joined BJP. After joining the BJP, he was made the National President of the BJP Backward Front.
Baghel has also played the role of star campaigner of BJP in the assembly elections held in Bihar. Baghel is now considered close to Union Home Minister Amit Shah. The party fielded Baghel in 2019 by cutting the ticket of Ram Shankar Katheria, a powerful MP and national president of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes. Baghel won the election from Agra by a huge margin.
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