Sangh Priya Gautam

Sangh Priya Gautam (b 1931) is a former Union minister of state for agro and rural industries of India. He was minister in Atal Bihari Vajpayee ministry around 2001. He was born in 1931 in Bulandshahr district in Uttar Pradesh in India and studied at law Aligarh Muslim University. A Lawyer by profession, he was elected to Rajya Sabha in 1990 and in 1998 as a candidate of Bharatiya Janata Party.[1][2][3]

This article is about former Union minister of state, born in 1931. For other uses, see Sanghmitra Maurya.

After the defeat of Vajpayee Government in 2004 General Election, Shri Gautam started to complain about being sidelined in the party and was suspended in 2006 for anti-party activities.[4] Even in 2010s, he continued to be a vocal critic of the party.[5]

See also

Sanghmitra Maurya, a woman leader of the same party (BJP) in UP in 2010s, with a similar name which causes confusion for some people

References
  1. Rajya Sabha member profile
  2. BJP suspends Sangh Priya Gautam
  3. Candidate statistics - Sangh Priya Gautam
  4. https://www.outlookindia.com/newswire/story/bjp-suspends-sangh-priya-gautam/371893
  5. https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/make-nitin-gadkari-deputy-pm-shivraj-chouhan-party-chief-bjp-veteran-1973169


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