Bhimrao Ambedkar is an Indian politician from the Bahujan Samaj Party and a member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council.
Bhimrao Ambedkar | |
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Member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council | |
Assumed office 6 May 2018 | |
Constituency | elected by Legislative Assembly members |
Member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
In office 2007 - 2012 | |
Personal details | |
Political party | Bahujan Samaj Party |
Alma mater | Kanpur University (MA), Allahabad University (LLB) |
In the elections on 23 March 2018, BJP won 11 out of 13 seats and the remaining two were won by Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party each. Ambedkar became a member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council.[1][2]
He had earlier unsuccessfully contested the Rajya Sabha elections in 2018 where he was defeated by Anil Agrawal of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
He was elected from the Vidhan Sabha constituency Lakhna seat in the 2007 Uttar Pradesh state assembly elections and MLC U.P. in 2018. He was candidate of MP Rajya Sabha but due to some political situation he could not be elected.[3]
He was named after the Indian leader B. R. Ambedkar.[4]