Arun Kumar Sagar

Member of the 17th Lok Sabha

Arun Kumar Sagar

Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
Incumbent
Assumed office 25 May 2019
Preceded by	Krishna Raj
Constituency	Shahjahanpur
Majority	268,418

Personal details
Political party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Other political affiliations	Bahujan Samaj Party
Profession	Agriculture and business

Arun Kumar Sagar is an Indian politician who has been a Member of Lok Sabha for Shahjahanpur since 2019.

Political career

Arun Kumar Sagar,BJP MP from Shahjahanpur, was earlier a Bahujan Samaj Party BSP's popular youth Dalit leader of Jatav Cummunity in wesrtern UP. He was four times District President of Shahjahanpur District and two times bareilly Zone Co-ordinator of the party's unit. In 2008 at the age of 32 he became the vice-president of the state construction corporation (status of MoS UP Government).In 2012 he contested from Powayan constituency on BSP ticket and lost to SP"s candisate Shakuntla Devi by the margin of 4.2 percentage of votes. On 15 June 2015, he was fired by his party for anti-party activities.^[1]

After leaving Bahujan Samaj Party, Sagar immediately joined the Bharatiya Janata Party. The party recruited him as they were lacking a Dalit leader and was searching for one. In 2015, he was made the vice-president of the party's Braj region unit.

In March 2019, Bharatiya Janata Party announced that Sagar would contest the upcoming general election from the Shahjahanpur Lok Sabha constituency. He replaced sitting MP and union minister Krishna Raj.^[2] On 23 May, he was elected to the Lok Sabha, after defeating Amar Chand Jauhar of Mahagathbandhan, his nearest rival by a margin of 268,418 votes. Which was biggest margin in Rohilkhand. Sagar was polled 688,990 votes.^[3]

Tutor, Wiki. "Shahjahanpur Loksabha: जानें क्या है राजनैतिक इतिहास और किसका है कब्जा अरुण कुमार सागर (Arun Kumar Sagar) जीवन". Surag Bureau.

References

^ "लोकसभा चुनाव 2019: केंद्रीय मंत्री कृष्णाराज को भारी पड़ी अपनों से नाराजगी, पढ़े इसलिए कटा टिकट" (in Hindi). Jagran. 23 March 2019. Retrieved 25 May 2019.
^ "With Slight Tweak in Caste Formula, How BJP's UP Math Has Taken the Sheen Off SP-BSP Chemistry". News18. 22 March 2019. Retrieved 25 May 2019.
^ "भाजपा के अरुण को मिला जीत का 'सागर'" [BJP's Arun gets a sea of "victory"] (in Hindi). Jagran. 23 May 2019. Retrieved 25 May 2019.