Atul Garg (born 26 August 1957) is an

Indian politician Politics of India works within the framework of the country's Constitution. India is a parliamentary democratic secular republic in which the president of India is the head of state & first citizen of India and the prime minister of India is ...

from

Ghaziabad Ghaziabad () is a city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and a part of Delhi NCR. It is the administrative headquarters of Ghaziabad district and is the largest city in western Uttar Pradesh, with a population of 1,729,000. Ghaziabad Muni ...

who is a

Minister of State Minister of State is a title borne by politicians in certain countries governed under a parliamentary system. In some countries a Minister of State is a Junior Minister of government, who is assigned to assist a specific Cabinet Minister. In o ...

in the

Government of Uttar Pradesh The Government of Uttar Pradesh (ISO: Uttar Pradesh Sarkār; often abbreviated as GoUP) is the subnational government of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh with the governor as its appointed constitutional head of the state by the President of I ...

. He is a Member of the

Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly The Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly (Hindi: ''Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha'') is the lower house of the bicameral legislature of Uttar Pradesh. There are 403 seats in the house filled by direct election using a single-member first-past-the-p ...

, representing the

Ghaziabad Assembly constituency Ghaziabad Assembly constituency is one of the 403 constituencies of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly, India. It is a part of the Ghaziabad district and one of the five assembly constituencies in the Ghaziabad Lok Sabha constituency. Firs ...

Political career

Garg is a member of the

Bhartiya Janta Party The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; ; ) is a political party in India, and one of the two major Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. Since 2014, it has been the ruling political party in India under Narendra Modi ...

. He campaigned for the Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly elections in 2012 without winning a seat, but following the 2017 election he joined the assembly. He is a Minister of State responsible for food and civil supplies, food safety, rent control, and consumer protection.

Background

Garg is the son of Dinesh Chandra Garg, the first

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. Garg is a promoter of Entrepreneurship Education in Engineering & Management Colleges in Uttar Pradesh. Through various colleges, he has been promoting trainings in

entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value. With this definition, entrepreneurship is viewed as change, generally entailing risk beyond what is normally encountered in starting a business, which may include other values th ...

and skill development.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Garg, Atul Living people Politicians from Ghaziabad Uttar Pradesh MLAs 2017–2022 Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Uttar Pradesh State cabinet ministers of Uttar Pradesh Yogi ministry People from Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh 1957 births Uttar Pradesh MLAs 2022–2027