Ram Autar Shakya

Ram Autar Shakya
Member of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
In office
1991–1993
ConstituencyBhongaon Assembly constituency
Member of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
In office
1997–2002
ConstituencyBhongaon Assembly constituency
Personal details
Born13 June 1948
Ujagarpur village, Mainpuri district, Uttar Pradesh
NationalityIndian
Political partySamajwadi Party
Other political
affiliations		Janata Party
SpouseRambeti
ChildrenAlok Kumar Shakya
ParentMitthu Lal (father)

Ram Autar Shakya (born 13 June 1948) was an Indian politician based in Uttar Pradesh. He was elected to Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly twice from the Bhongaon Assembly constituency. Shakya was elected to Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly for the first time in 1991, as a candidate of Janata Party. In 1996 mid-term elections, he was elected to 13th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly, but this time, as a candidate of Samajwadi Party. The Bhongaon Assembly constituency was later represented by his son Alok Kumar Shakya, who represented this constituency thrice after death of his father.[1][2][3]

Life and political career

Ram Autar Shakya was born to Mitthu Lal in Ujagarpur village of Mainpuri district of Uttar Pradesh on 13 June 1948. He was born in a Hindu Other Backward Class family, but later, he became a follower of Buddhism. After completing his bachelor's degree, he pursued his degree of law and became an advocate. In June 1965, he was married to Rambeti, with whom he had two sons and a daughter. Shakya worked as a lawyer and an agriculturist before becoming a part of active politics of the state of Uttar Pradesh. In May–June 1991, he contested his first assembly elections and became a member of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly on the ticket of Janata Party. His second stint as M.L.A came in 1996, when he was re-elected to Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly on the ticket of Samajwadi Party. In this election, he defeated Shivraj Singh of Bahujan Samaj Party.[1]

Shakya was a prominent social activist. He participated in Lok Dal's Fill the Prisons and block the roads movement of 1974 and 1980 against inflation and 'Maya Tyagi case'.[a] Consequently, he was arrested and sent to Mainpuri district jail. Later, after his release, he served as member of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly's committee on Schedule Castes, Schedule Tribes and Denotified Tribes. In 1991, he also served as president of Uttar Pradesh Cooperative Union. Between 1992 and 1996, he was the member of board of trustees of Agra college, Agra.[1][5][6]

References

Notes

  1. ^ Six months pregnant with Deepak. Tyagi. then 26, was travelling in a car with her husband and two of his friends when they stopped at Baghpat. west of Meerut. While the men were sipping cold drinks, she was sitting in the car. A man ambled over and started misbehaving with her. When her husband protested, there was a scuffle, and the man-Sub-inspector Narendra Singh in plain clothes-ran back to the nearby police station shouting "dacoits, dacoits". He returned with armed constables, who shot dead Tyagi's husband and his friends. Then Singh pulled Tyagi out of the car, stripped her and dragged her to the police station. She was then repeatedly raped.[4]

Citations

  1. ^ a b c "13th Vidhan Sabha members" (PDF). Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly. Archived (PDF) from the original on 16 August 2019. Retrieved 20 September 2023.
  2. ^ "Ram Autar Shakya was an able leader". Dainik Jagran. Archived from the original on 21 September 2023. Retrieved 20 September 2023.
  3. ^ "Mainpuri Bypoll: सपा का बड़ा दांव, उपचुनाव से पहले पूर्व MLA आलोक शाक्य को बनाया मैनपुरी का नया जिलाध्यक्ष". Navbharat Times. Archived from the original on 27 July 2023. Retrieved 20 September 2023.
  4. ^ "Policeman are my enemy says Maya Tyagi". India Today. Archived from the original on 22 September 2023. Retrieved 22 September 2023.
  5. ^ "UP Chunav: कैबिनेट मंत्री रामनरेश अग्निहोत्री की प्रतिष्ठा दांव पर". Prabhat Khabar. Archived from the original on 13 March 2022. Retrieved 20 September 2023.
  6. ^ "Bhongaon Assembly constituency will BJP able to win in the stronghold of Mulayam Singh Yadav". Aajtak (in Hindi). Archived from the original on 12 September 2022. Retrieved 20 September 2023.