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Member of the 17th Lok Sabha
Arun Kumar Sagar
is an Indian politician who has been a
Member of Lok Sabha
for
Shahjahanpur
since
2019
.
Political career
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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.
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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
.
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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.
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