Ram Prasad Chaudhary


Ram Prasad Chaudhary is an Indian politician and a member of the 9th Lok Sabha, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th and 16 th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh in India.He represents the Kaptanganj constituency of Uttar Pradesh and is a member of the Samajwadi Party. He earlier also served as Minister of State in Mayawati cabinet, Minister of Textile and silk industry in Kalyan Singh government and Minister of Food and Civil Supplies in Mayawati cabinet.

Early life and education

Chaudhary was born 15 November 1954 in Jigna village in the Basti district of Uttar Pradesh to father Manik Ram Chaudhary. He married with Kapura Devi, they have one son and two daughter. He belong from Backward Class community. In 1978, he attend Government Polytechnic Collage, Basti and attained Diploma in civil and electrical engineering. His nephew Arvind Kumar Chaudhary has been also a MP from Basti from 2009 to 2014 as a member of Bahujan Samaj Party.

Political career

Chaudhary started career as a Member of parliament in 9th Lok Sabha from Khalilabad of Sant Kabir Nagar district as a member of Janata Party. After 1993 he regular five continuously time MLA of Kaptanganj of Basti district till 2017.
In Seventeenth Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh elections, he lost by Bhartiya Janata Party candidate Chandra Prakash Shukla by a margin of 6,827 votes.
In 2019 general elections, he was candidate of SP and BSP from Basti Lok Sabha seat. But he lost the election by BJP's Harish Dwivedi by a margin of 30,354 v votes.
In November 2019, BSP supremo Mayawati expelled Chaudhary and three former MLAs from the party for indiscipline and anti-party activities. After the expulsion, Chaudhary joined the Samajwadi Party along with his colleagues in the presence of Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav in Lucknow.

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