Dinanath Bhaskar | |
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| Minister of Uttar Pradesh MLA,12th Legislative Assembly | |
| In office 1993–1995 | |
| Minister | Health Minister |
| Constituency | Chandauli |
| Chairman of theNational Commission for Scheduled Tribes | |
| In office 2004 – 2007[citation needed] | |
| MLA,14th Legislative Assembly | |
| In office 2002–2007 | |
| Constituency | Bhadohi |
| Minister of State | |
| In office 2002–2004 | |
| Constituency | Aurai |
| MLA,17th Legislative Assembly | |
| Assumed office 2017 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1963-03-10)10 March 1963 (age 62) Chandauli, Uttar Pradesh, India |
| Political party | Bharatiya Janta Party(2015–present) |
| Other political affiliations |
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| Profession | Politician |
Dinanath Bhaskar (born 10 March 1963)[citation needed] is an Indian politician active in the state ofUttar Pradesh. Once a close associate ofKanshi Ram, he was a founding member of theBahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and was Minister for Health during the state's coalition government of theSamajwadi Party (SP) and BSP in 1993. He quit the BSP to join the SP in 1996, rejoined the BSP around 2009 and in 2015 joined theBharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
In the 2017 state elections, Bhaskar was elected asMember of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) forAurai constituency as a BJP candidate. This was his third successful election to theUttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly.
In the 2022 state election, Bhaskar repeated as MLA for the fourth time in the Legislative Assembly.
He is currently working on the Public Accounts Committee UP Legislative Assembly.
Once a close associate of Kanshi Ram,[1] Dinanath Bhaskar was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh from the Chandauli constituency in 1993 on a BSP ticket.[2] Around that time he was noted as a controversial character in thecaste-ridden politics of Uttar Pradesh, much disliked by upper castes for his alignment withDalits and other minorities and his exhortations to them to become militant.[3]
Bhaskar left the BSP afterMayawati accusedMulayam Singh Yadav of trying to induce support from Bhaskar.[citation needed] Standing as an SP candidate in the1996 assembly elections, he lost the contest in theBhadohi constituency toPurnmasi Pankaj of the BJP.[4][a] He then successfully contested the2002 elections in the same constituency to become a Member of the Legislative Assembly for a second time. He lost the seat to the BSP candidate,Archana Saroj, in2007[5] and left the party after being denied aVidhan Sabha ticket in a 2009 by-election. He then re-joined the BSP and was made Coordinator of Allahabad zone, Mirzapur zone and Varanasi Zone respectively.[citation needed]
Bhaskar resigned from the BSP on 4 April 2015, accusing it of selling its election candidacies,[6] and joined the BJP one month later.[7] He won the Aurai constituency in the2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly elections as a BJP candidate.[8]
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