14 hours agoAuthor: Raksha Singh
Rakesh Rathore alias Guru, the face of Yogi 2.0 who first became MLA from Ordinary Mistry, then became Minister of State in the cabinet. In Yogi’s series of ministers, today is the story of a leader who has covered the journey from Mistry to Minister in just 53 days.
Let’s start today’s story from Rakesh’s school days…
Rakesh has studied only till VIII
Year: 1973 Place: Misrikh, Sitapur
13-year-old Rakesh took admission in class VIII. I was fine to read. The financial condition of the house was weak. It was decided that Rakesh would also have to share the responsibilities of the house. So he had to leave his studies after the eighth standard.
Rakesh used to run a battery shop, his brother still does the same thing
Rakesh in Neeli Sadri with friends at Motor Mechanic’s shop.
Year: 1982 Place: Durgapurwa, Sitapur There was a wooden dump near RMP Mod. It was here that Rakesh opened a shop to repair scooters and cycles. He did the same thing for the next 10 years. After 1982, people had reduced the use of scooters. Rakesh started losing profit in business. Then he also started the work of spare parts.
The rest, including his elder brother Satish, dressed in white kurta at Rakesh’s house in Durgapurwa.
When some money started coming in, Rakesh also opened an inverter battery shop named Guru Battery. This shop is now run by Rakesh’s brother Atul Rathore. The income earned from here is used to run the expenses of Atul’s house. Even after becoming an MLA, Rakesh visits the shop and meets people.
Specialized in making scooters, those who learned the work from them started calling him Guru.
When Rakesh started the work of scooter repairer, he was called Guru from whom he learned the work. After a time, he became so adept at making scooters that people in the automobile market started learning work from him.
Those who learned the work started calling him Guru. From here he was recognized as Rakesh Rathore Guru.
Rakesh is associated with RSS since childhood
He did not even know that Rakesh would become a minister one day while making scooters. However, his interest in politics has been there since the beginning.
He has been associated with RSS since childhood. He has been counted among the hardworking workers of BJP since the beginning.
BJP’s strategy that made Rakesh MLA
In the year 2017, UP assembly elections were elected as BJP MLA from Sitapur Sadar seat. His name was also Rakesh Rathore.
Both Rakesh Rathor used to be good friends at one time. Before 2018, the two were often seen together. But gradually their relationship started falling apart.
Rakesh Rathore in a blue shirt and a picture of Rakesh Rathore Guru’s friendship days with him.
Before the 2022 elections, MLA Rakesh Rathore’s tussle with BJP also started. Several videos of him speaking against the party also went viral. From PM Modi to Yogi, everyone raised questions on the way they work. Later, he left the BJP shortly before the elections. Joined SP.
Now BJP was looking for a new face for the 2022 elections. In such a situation, the party played the card of a factor named Rakesh.
There was an election in Sitapur on 23 February. 22 days before that i.e. on 1st February, BJP made Rakesh Rathore Guru as its candidate. This was the first time that Rakesh was going to contest elections.
SP candidate Radheshyam said, “Rakesh’s security will be forfeited in this election”.
Rakesh had only 22 days to campaign for the election. During this, he also had to face the displeasure of the party workers. The extent was reached when a BJP leader independently stood against him.
At the same time, SP candidate Radheshyam Jaiswal had said that Rakesh will not get any benefit in his name. On the contrary, people will not vote for him because he does not want to vote for Rakesh, who was the first MLA. He said that if Rakesh Rathore Guru continues to contest the election this time, his bail will be forfeited.
contested elections for the first time, won
On 10 March 2022, the election verdict came. Rakesh contested for the first time. have won. While Radheshyam, who was a four-time MLA from this seat, came second. Rakesh defeated him by 1253 votes.
became a minister of state got double happiness
On March 25, Rakesh took oath as the Minister of State.
The election results were shocking. The joy of Rakesh’s victory was doubled when he was sworn in as Minister of State on 25 March 2022. Three days later, on March 28, he was given the post of Minister of Urban and Urban Development, Minister of Urban Employment.