Rajesh Agarwal is an

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belonging to the

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who is currently serving as its National

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and former

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in the

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. He previously served as

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of trade tax and institutional finance in 2001, and as

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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 ...

from 2003 to 2007. He then served as the Finance cabinet minister again from 2017 to 2019 in the Yogi government. He resigned as cabinet minister after he had reached 75 years of age. BJP promoted him as the National Treasurer of BJP. Agarwal was a member of the assembly elected from Bareilly Cantoment. He had continuously held the seat for 29 years in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative assembly. He holds several key positions in the Bharatiya Janata party.

Positions Held

Rajesh Agarwal has been elected to Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly for 6 terms.

References

Deputy Speakers of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly Uttar Pradesh MLAs 2002–2007 Politicians from Bareilly Living people Uttar Pradesh MLAs 2007–2012 Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Uttar Pradesh Yogi ministry State cabinet ministers of Uttar Pradesh Year of birth missing (living people) {{UttarPradesh-BJP-politician-stub