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SatyapalSinghBaghel

A five-term Member of the Lok Sabha, now representing Agra (SC), and Union Minister of State for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying and for Panchayati Raj since June 2024. He has served in both Houses of Parliament and in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly and cabinet, and before politics he was a police officer and a college teacher.

Born 21 June 1960Party Bharatiya Janata PartyIn Parliament since 1998

Official portrait of Satyapal Singh Baghel in a pale yellow sleeveless jacket
Plate IOfficial portrait

At a glance

The record in five figures

Every figure on this page comes from an official record: the Lok Sabha member record, Election Commission of India results, or PRS Legislative Research. The source sits under each number.

5Lok Sabha terms12th, 13th, 14th, 17th and 18th Lok Sabha · Lok Sabha member record
1Rajya Sabha termJuly 2010 – March 2014, from Uttar Pradesh · Lok Sabha member record, PRS
4Union ministries served as Minister of StateLaw & Justice; Health; Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying; Panchayati Raj
271,294Winning margin, Agra, 2024599,397 votes (53.34%) · Election Commission of India
95%Attendance, 17th Lok SabhaNational average 79% · PRS, mainly his pre-ministerial period

Before politics

A village in Auraiya, a uniform, a lectern

02 Early life

Bhatpura, 1960

Born on 21 June 1960 at Bhatpura, post office Umari, in what was then Etawah district and has been Auraiya district since 1997. His parents were Ram Bharose Singh and Ramshri Devi.

Early life & background
03 Education

Four degrees across two states

An M.Sc. in Military Science from Jiwaji University, Gwalior (1982), an LL.B. from Meerut (1987), a Ph.D. from Chaudhary Charan Singh University (2004) and an M.A. in History from Agra (2013). That academic record is why official lists name him “Prof.”

Education & profession
03 Profession

Police service, then teaching

PTI has reported that he served as a police officer in the security detail of former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav, who brought him into politics. He later taught at Agra College: his 2019 election affidavit lists him as an Associate Professor there.

Professional record

Political journey

Four stages, three parties

Election Commission records trace a path from a first contest in 1996, through three Samajwadi Party terms and a Rajya Sabha seat, to the BJP in 2014. Since 2019 it has run through Agra.

  1. 1996

    First contest

    Contested Jalesar for the Lok Sabha as the Bahujan Samaj Party candidate and finished second with 155,047 votes.

  2. 1998 – 2009

    Samajwadi Party

    Won Jalesar three times in a row (1998, 1999, 2004): first by 2,734 votes, finally by 106,068.

  3. 2009 – 2014

    Bahujan Samaj Party

    Contested Firozabad in 2009 and sat in the Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh from 2010 to 2014.

  4. 2014 – present

    Bharatiya Janata Party

    Became national president of the BJP OBC Morcha, won Tundla in 2017, and has held Agra since 2019.

Read the full political journey

Electoral record

Eleven contests on record

Nine Lok Sabha contests, five of them won, and two Uttar Pradesh Assembly contests, one won. The Agra wins of 2019 and 2024 are his largest by vote share and by margin.

All results, with vote counts

Source: Election Commission of India statistical reports and result pages.
YearConstituencyPartyResult
2024Agra (SC), Lok SabhaBJPWon
2022Karhal, UP AssemblyBJPLost
2019Agra (SC), Lok SabhaBJPWon
2017Tundla (SC), UP AssemblyBJPWon
2014Firozabad, Lok SabhaBJPLost
2004Jalesar, Lok SabhaSPWon
1999Jalesar, Lok SabhaSPWon
1998Jalesar, Lok SabhaSPWon

Responsibilities

In the House, and in government

Parliament

1998 – 2009
Lok Sabha, Jalesar: 12th, 13th and 14th Lok Sabha
2010 – 2014
Rajya Sabha, Uttar Pradesh
2019 – 2024
Lok Sabha, Agra (SC): 17th Lok Sabha
2024 –
Lok Sabha, Agra (SC): 18th Lok Sabha

Parliamentary work

Government

2017 – 2019
Cabinet Minister, Uttar Pradesh: Animal Husbandry, Fisheries, Minor Irrigation
2021 – 2023
Union Minister of State, Law & Justice
2023 – 2024
Union Minister of State, Health & Family Welfare
2024 –
Union Minister of State, Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying, and Panchayati Raj

Ministerial roles

Milestones

Six turning points

Chosen because each one changed the course of his career. Every entry is dated from an official record.

  1. 1998

    First election to the Lok Sabha

    Won Jalesar for the Samajwadi Party by 2,734 votes, two years after losing the same seat.

  2. 5 July 2010

    Enters the Rajya Sabha

    Began a term as a Rajya Sabha member from Uttar Pradesh, for the Bahujan Samaj Party. It ran until 12 March 2014.

  3. July 2015

    Leads the BJP OBC Morcha

    Named national president of the BJP’s wing for Other Backward Classes, a post he held from 2015 to 2016.

  4. 19 March 2017

    Cabinet Minister in Uttar Pradesh

    After winning Tundla (SC), joined the state cabinet, responsible for animal husbandry, fisheries and minor irrigation.

  5. 7 July 2021

    First Union ministerial office

    Sworn in as Union Minister of State for Law and Justice. In May 2023 he moved to Health and Family Welfare.

  6. June 2024

    Fifth Lok Sabha term

    Re-elected from Agra by 271,294 votes, then appointed Minister of State in two ministries at the same time.

All verified milestones

Timeline

Six decades in six dates

Open the full chronology

1960Born at Bhatpura, Uttar Pradesh
1998Elected to the 12th Lok Sabha from Jalesar
2010Enters the Rajya Sabha
2017MLA for Tundla and state Cabinet Minister
2021Union Minister of State, Law & Justice
2024Fifth Lok Sabha term; two ministries
Satyapal Singh Baghel speaking into a hand-held microphone outdoors, wearing a saffron scarf and checked jacket
Plate II · Documentary

In the constituency

Addressing a gathering outdoors, microphone in hand. Agra has been reserved for Scheduled Castes since the 2008 delimitation. Its five Assembly segments are Etmadpur, Agra Cantonment (SC), Agra South, Agra North and Jalesar (SC). Jalesar is the same town that gave its name to the Lok Sabha seat he held from 1998 to 2009.

Constituency composition: Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008.

The archive

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