Ram Kinkar (1922-2003) was an Indian politician. He was elected to the

Lok Sabha The Lok Sabha, constitutionally the House of the People, is the lower house of India's bicameral Parliament, with the upper house being the Rajya Sabha. Members of the Lok Sabha are elected by an adult universal suffrage and a first-p ...

, the lower house of the

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from the

Barabanki Barabanki is a city and a municipal board in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is administrative headquarters of Barabanki district. The city is about 30 km east of Lucknow, the state capital. It has a population of 146,831 with a dens ...

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constituency of

as a member of the

Janata Party The Janata Party ( JP, lit. ''People's Party'') was a political party that was founded as an amalgam of Indian political parties opposed to the Emergency that was imposed between 1975 and 1977 by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of the Indian Nati ...

. He was Deputy Minister for Education, Social Welfare, Food & Civil Supplies, Revenue etc. from February 17, to July 15, 1970 and the Cabinet Minister for Sales Tax in Uttar Pradesh Government from July to October, 1970 and for Forest, November, 1970 to March 1971. He was Minister of State in the Ministry of Works and Housing and Supply and Rehabilitation in Morarji Desai Cabinet from August 1977 to June 1978. He resigned from the Government on June 30, 1978, and rejoined the Ministry on January 26, 1979, with the same portfolio but as Cabinet Minister for Works and Housing and Supply and Rehabilitation in Charan Singh Cabinet from July 28, 1979, to January 13, 1980. Kinkar died on September 12, 2003, in

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at the age of 82.

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External links

Official Biographical Sketch in Lok Sabha Website
India MPs 1977–1979 India MPs 1980–1984 Janata Party politicians 1922 births 2003 deaths Indian National Congress politicians Bharatiya Lok Dal politicians People from Pratapgarh district, Uttar Pradesh Lok Sabha members from Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh MLAs 1952–1957 Uttar Pradesh MLAs 1957–1962 Uttar Pradesh MLAs 1962–1967 Uttar Pradesh MLAs 1967–1969 Uttar Pradesh MLAs 1969–1974 Janata Party (Secular) politicians {{JP-politician-stub