Sangh Priya Gautam (b 1931) is a former Union minister of state for agro and rural industries of

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. He was minister in

Atal Bihari Vajpayee Atal Bihari Vajpayee (; 25 December 1924 – 16 August 2018) was an Indian politician who served three terms as the 10th prime minister of India, first for a term of 13 days in 1996, then for a period of 13 months fr ...

ministry around 2001. He was born in 1931 in

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district in

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and studied at law

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. A Lawyer by profession, he was elected to

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in 1990 and in 1998 as a candidate of

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. He was BJP candidate for

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in 1984 when he came third. Later he was elected to Rajya Sabha twice. 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. He was admitted back in the party in 2011. Even in 2010s after re-joining BJP, he continued to be a vocal critic of the party.

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