Rakesh Sachan

Rakesh Sachan (born 20 December 1964) is an Indian politician who is currently a Cabinet minister in the Ministry of MSME, Khadi, Village Industries, Sericulture, Textile, Government of Uttar Pradesh & Member of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly 2022 (MLA) from Bhognipur constituency. He has also served two terms in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly (1993–96 and 2002–2007) and was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) in 2009 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 Indian National Congress on 2 March 2019.

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