Roopa Ram (born 15 November 1954), also known as Roopa Ram Muravatiya, is an Indian politician from

Rajasthan Rajasthan (; lit. 'Land of Kings') is a state in northern India. It covers or 10.4 per cent of India's total geographical area. It is the largest Indian state by area and the seventh largest by population. It is on India's northwestern s ...

and a member of

Bharatiya Janata 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 Mod ...

. He is an elected Member of 15th Legislative Assembly of Rajasthan from

Makrana Makrana is an urban city located at the centre of Rajasthan in Nagaur district. It also served as a tehsil headquarters, with 136 villages under its jurisdiction thus making it the largest tehsil in the district. The biggest village of Makr ...

Early life

Roopa Ram was born in

to Andaram Murawatiya. He passed higher secondary from Higher Secondary School of Makrana in 1975. He was a state level football player and a member of ''City Club of Football'', Makrana and still plays football daily in Syed Kidwai Football Stadium

Political career

Roopa Ram was elected as

Member of Legislative Assembly A member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) is a representative elected by the voters of a constituency to a legislative assembly. Most often, the term refers to a subnational assembly such as that of a state, province, or territory of a country. ...

from Makrana constituency in 1993 as a

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and defeated

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candidate Abdul Aziz, former Minister of State, Government of Rajasthan by 4,931 votes and secured 30,400 votes. In 1998, he contested

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 Mod ...

candidate but was not able to secure his seat and got only 24,912 votes and Abdul Aziz won that election by 19951 votes. After that he retired from politics for 20 years. In 2018, he was again active in politics and contested as candidate of Bhartiya Janta Party from

Assembly, and defeated

Zakir Hussain Gesawat Zakir Hussain Gesawat, ( hi, जाकिर हुसैन गैसावत( 5 July 1970) is a politician and the Former Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) of Makrana for the state of Rajasthan, India. He is current candidate for Indian N ...

by a narrow margin of 1,072 votes.

In Rajasthan Assembly

Murawatiya often raises issues of

locality and the state in the

Rajasthan Legislative Assembly The Rajasthan Legislative Assembly or the Rajasthan Vidhan Sabha is the unicameral legislature of the Indian state of Rajasthan. The assembly meets at Vidhana Bhavan situated in Jaipur, the capital of Rajasthan. Members of the Legislative asse ...

. He had sung folk song "Teja gayan" in the assembly. He has also raised the issue of filling illegal VCR by electricity department in Makrana. On 15 February 2021, commenting on

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after a massive farmer's rally held on 13 February 2021 in

, Ram alleged the Rajasthan Government of using system machinery for crowd. Ram also commented that Gandhi converts all marble businessmen to farmers, like he converts ''potato to gold''. This caused an uproar in the house and prompted the Education Minister Govind Singh Dorasra to call Ram a 'joker'. All the comments were later deleted from the House Records of Rajathan Assembly after being contested by the Congress members.

Personal life

He is married to Sarju Devi. They have two sons and two daughters.

References

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