Rajesh Agarwal

Rajesh Agarwal is an Indian politician belonging to the Bhartiya Janata Party who is currently serving as its National Treasurer[2] and former Minister of finance in the Government of Uttar Pradesh. He has served as Cabinet Minister of trade tax and institutional finance in 2001, and as Deputy Speaker of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly from 2003 to 2007. He then served as the Finance cabinet minister again from 2017 to 2019 in the Yogi government. He resigned after he had reached 75 years of age from the ministry, but the BJP promoted him as the National Treasurer of BJP. Agarwal is a member of the assembly elected from Bareilly Cantt. He has continuously held a seat for 26 years in the Uttar Pradesh assembly. He is considered to be a good politician, which is one of the reasons why the BJP has chosen him to take up one of the key positions of the party.[3]

Rajesh Agarwal
Treasurer, Bharatiya Janata Party
Assumed office
26 September 2020
Preceded byPiyush Goyal[1]
Member of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
In office
2012–2022
Preceded byVirendra Singh
Succeeded bySanjeev Agarwal
ConstituencyBareilly Cantt
In office
1993–2012
Preceded byDinesh Johri
ConstituencyBareilly
Finance Minister, Uttar Pradesh
In office
March 2017 – August 2019
Succeeded bySuresh Kumar Khanna
Personal details
BornBareilly District
NationalityIndian
Political partyBharatiya Janata Party
Other political
affiliations		National Democratic Alliance
Spouse(s)pushpa agarwal
ChildrenManish Agarwal, Parth Agarwal
Residence(s)Bareilly District
Alma materM. J. P. Rohilkhand University

References
  1. "Tejasvi Surya in, Ram Madhav out in BJP rejig". Retrieved 27 September 2020.
  2. "Rajesh Agarwal gets BJP treasurer post". United News of India. 27 September 2020. Retrieved 12 October 2020.
  3. "Rajesh elected UP Assembly dy speaker - The Times of India". timesofindia.indiatimes.com. Retrieved 4 August 2014.


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