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A report on his work in both Houses: the terms, the committees, what PRS Legislative Research recorded about his attendance and participation, and the issues he raised for his constituency. Official records and PRS are the only sources.
- Lok Sabha
- 12th, 13th, 14th, 17th, 18th
- Rajya Sabha
- 5 July 2010 – 12 March 2014
- Data
- Lok Sabha member record; PRS MP Track
Terms in Parliament
He has been elected to the Lok Sabha five times, in two separate spells: three terms for Jalesar (1998–2009) and two for Agra (2019 onwards). Between them came a term in the Rajya Sabha. The Lok Sabha record counts his current membership as his fifth term.
| House | Period | Constituency | Party |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12th Lok Sabha | 1998 – 1999 | Jalesar | SP |
| 13th Lok Sabha | 1999 – 2004 | Jalesar | SP |
| 14th Lok Sabha | 2004 – 2009 | Jalesar | SP |
| Rajya Sabha | 5 Jul 2010 – 12 Mar 2014 | Uttar Pradesh | BSP |
| 17th Lok Sabha | 2019 – 2024 | Agra (SC) | BJP |
| 18th Lok Sabha | 2024 – | Agra (SC) | BJP |
Committee work
Parliamentary committees scrutinise legislation, spending and administration in detail. The Lok Sabha record lists the following memberships. Those in the 17th Lok Sabha ended on 7 July 2021, when he became a minister, since ministers do not sit on these committees.
| Period | Committee | House |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 – 99 | Committee on Subordinate Legislation | Lok Sabha |
| 13th LS | Consultative Committee, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare | Lok Sabha |
| 13th LS | Committee on Human Resource Development | Lok Sabha |
| 1999 – 2000 | Committee on Food, Civil Supplies and Public Distribution; Committee on Estimates | Lok Sabha |
| 2000 – 04 | Consultative Committee, Ministry of Home Affairs; Committee on Public Undertakings | Lok Sabha |
| 2006 – 09 | Committee on Absence of Members from the Sittings of the House | Lok Sabha |
| 2007 – 09 | Standing Committee on External Affairs | Lok Sabha |
| 2011 | Standing Committee on Industry | Rajya Sabha |
| 2012 | Committee on Provision of Computer Equipment to Members | Rajya Sabha |
| RS term | Consultative Committee, Ministry of Finance | Rajya Sabha |
| 2013 | Court of Manipur University | Rajya Sabha |
| 2019 – 21 | Standing Committee on Urban Development | Lok Sabha |
| 2019 – 21 | Committee on Subordinate Legislation | Lok Sabha |
| 17th LS | Consultative Committee, Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution | Lok Sabha |
17th Lok Sabha: the data
PRS Legislative Research tracks the attendance, debates and questions of every MP who is not a minister. For his 17th Lok Sabha term (2019–2024) the figures therefore mainly cover June 2019 to July 2021, before he joined the government.
Attendance by session
Source: PRS Legislative Research, MP Track, 17th Lok Sabha. PRS notes that ministers do not sign the attendance register, ask questions or introduce private members’ bills.
Legislation he spoke on
- Central Universities (Amendment) Bill, 2019
- Airports Economic Regulatory Authority of India (Amendment) Bill, 2019
- Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2019
- Indian Institutes of Information Technology Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2020
- Motion of Thanks on the President’s Address: 25 June 2019, 9 February 2021 and 2 February 2024
Matters raised for Agra
MPs can raise constituency issues through “matters under Rule 377”, through special mentions, and through questions. The PRS list of his interventions in the 17th Lok Sabha is dominated by Agra: its infrastructure, its tourism economy and its public institutions.
Matters and mentions
- 18 Jul 2019
- AIIMS status for S.N. Medical College, Agra
- 22 Jul 2019
- An international airport for Agra
- 26 Jul 2019
- The groundwater problem in Agra
- 5 Aug 2019
- Tourist facilities in Agra
- 20 Mar 2020
- A special package for potato farmers
- 21 Sep 2020
- Night-time post-mortems
- 13 Feb 2021
- Opening the Taj Mahal until 11 pm; Bhojpuri in the Eighth Schedule
- 16 Mar 2021
- An IIT and IIM at Agra; amendment of Article 348
- 17 Mar 2021
- A film city in Agra
- 22 Mar 2021
- An Agra bypass
- 24 Mar 2021
- Cow shelters
His five questions (March 2020)
Overnight stays by tourists in Agra
A passport office in Agra
Starred question, answered orally in the House
A stadium in Agra
Spread of Prosopis juliflora
An invasive shrub
Christian cemeteries in Agra
Source: PRS Legislative Research, debates and questions lists for the 17th Lok Sabha. Titles are paraphrased from the PRS listing.
Rajya Sabha, 2010–2014
As a BSP member of the Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh, he recorded 96% attendance (national average 80%) and took part in 26 debates, according to PRS. He asked no questions. The debates included:
- The Manual Scavengers Bill, 2013 (the Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Bill)
- A bench of the Allahabad High Court for western Uttar Pradesh (special mention, 7 September 2013)
- The mandatory English paper in the UPSC examination (14 March 2013)
- Pollution of the Ganga and the Yamuna (11 March 2013)
- Onion prices (27 August 2013)
- The Companies Bill, 2012
As a minister in the House
Since 7 July 2021 he has been a member of the Union Council of Ministers. PRS does not track ministers’ participation, because ministers speak and answer for the government rather than as individual members. That is why the 18th Lok Sabha record shows no attendance, debate or question figures.
A minister’s work in Parliament shows up instead in answers given on behalf of the ministry. One example: on 12 March 2025 a written answer he gave in the Rajya Sabha on schemes for dairy farmers stated that the Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying had no plan for a price-support scheme. It set out the National Programme for Dairy Development’s aim of forming 75,000 new dairy cooperatives over five years.
Sources: PRS, 18th Lok Sabha; PIB, 12 March 2025.
The constituency
Agra (parliamentary constituency no. 18, Uttar Pradesh) has been reserved for Scheduled Castes since the 2008 delimitation and was first contested in that form in 2009. Before that it was a general seat. It takes in five Assembly segments: Etmadpur, Agra Cantonment (SC), Agra South and Agra North in Agra district, and Jalesar (SC) in Etah district.
The last of these links his two constituencies. Jalesar, which he represented in the Lok Sabha from 1998 to 2009, was a general seat until delimitation abolished it. Its Assembly segment was then moved into Agra.
Sources: Election Commission of India results (1998, 1999, 2009); Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008.