Rakesh Sachan (born 20 December 1964) is an Indian politician and currently a Cabinet minister in Ministry of MSME, Khadi, Village Industries, Sericulture, Textile,

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& Member of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly 2022 (MLA) from Bhognipur constituency and, who has also served two terms in the

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(1993–96 and 2002–2007) and in 2009 was elected as a

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(MP) from the Fatepur Lok Sabha constituency, on the Samajwadi Party ticket. He stood for re-election from the same constituency in 2014, again as a member of the Samajwadi Party, but lost. Sachan switched political parties, and joined the

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on 2 March 2019. In the

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he was a candidate from the Fatehpur Lok Sabha constituency as a member of INC. In January 2022 he joined the

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(BJP), and became the Cabinet Minister in the

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. He contested from

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constituency of Bhognipur in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election.

Early life and education

Sachan was born on 20 December 1964 in Kanpur,

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to his father Udai Narayan Singh. He married Seema Sachan, they have two sons and one daughter. He did his early schooling from Kanpur. He attended the

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and attained

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Jail sentence

In August 2022, A Kanpur court sentenced Sachan one year imprisonment and ₹1,500 in 1991 Arms Act case. He left the court and disappeared taking the copy of the court's conviction order with him.

References

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