| Office | Member of Panel of Chairpersons (Lok Sabha)
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| Office | Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha |
| Office | Cabinet Minister IN Uttar Pradesh
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| Term start | Template:Start date
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| Born | 1945-07-31 (age 81) |
| Born | Bikapur, United Provinces, British India (present-day Uttar Pradesh, India)
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| Political party | Samajwadi Party |
| Spouse | Template:Marriage |
| Children | 7 |
| Alma mater | Lucknow University (LL.B, 1968) DAV College, Kanpur, Agra University (M.A, 1966)
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Awadhesh Prasad (born 31 July 1945) is an Indian politician who is a founding member of the Samajwadi Party (SP) and an MP in the 18th Lok Sabha representing Faizabad.[1][2] He is presently the general secretary of the national executive of SP and he was a member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly till 11 June 2024 when he was elected as an MP.[3] He has been a nine time MLA elected from the erstwhile Sohawal (SC) constituency in 1977, 1985, 1989, 1993, 1996, 2002 and 2007 and as of latest from Milkipur (SC) in 2012 and 2022.[4] He has become a minister for six times in the Government of Uttar Pradesh and been a cabinet minister in four of them.[1]
Political career
Prasad, who comes from Pasi Dalit community,[5] began his political career at the age of 21. He was the Ayodhya district co-convener of the anti-Emergency Sangarsh Samiti. He was also the polling agent of the Lok Dal at Amethi during the 1977 Indian general election. He became the national secretary and was inducted into the central parliamentary board when the Samajwadi Party was founded in 1992. In the party, he has generally functioned as an organisation man since then.[1]
He became minister in the Janata Party governments of Ram Naresh Yadav and Babu Banarasi Das and in the Samajwadi Party governments of Mulayam Singh Yadav and Akhilesh Yadav.[1] He has a close association with the party president Akhilesh Yadav and was one of the few veteran leaders to have sided with him during the pre-2017 election leadership contest within the party.[3]
In the 2024 Indian general election Prasad won [6] as the Member of Parliament from the Faizabad Lok Sabha constituency.[7] This win has been seen as of deep interest within the 2024 Indian general election because it encompasses the city of Ayodhya where resides the Ram Temple which was set-up in the previous term (2019-2024). Though, the BJP led from Ayodhya Assembly constituency, it failed to win the seat. Analysts credited his win to failure of BJP's Abki Baar 400 Paar slogan and Samajwadi Party's strategy of leveraging social politics by capitalizing on the significant OBC voter base, including Kurmis and Yadavs, aligning OBCs, Dalits, and Muslims to edge out the BJP.[5]
Electoral record
Legislative Assembly
| Year | Party | Constituency Name | Result | Votes gained | Vote share% | Margin | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | bgcolor=Template:Party color| | BKD | Sohawal | Template:Lost | 18,879 | 34.70% | 689 |
| 1977 | bgcolor=Template:Party color| | JP | Template:Won | 28,090 | 58.42% | 10,578 | |
| 1980 | bgcolor=Template:Party color| | JP(S) | Template:Lost | 21,932 | 40.72% | 4,071 | |
| 1985 | bgcolor=Template:Party color| | LD | Template:Won | 27,373 | 46.29% | 9,147 | |
| 1989 | bgcolor=Template:Party color| | JD | Template:Won | 29,413 | 33.91% | 10,032 | |
| 1991 | bgcolor=Template:Party color| | JP | Template:Lost | 22,047 | 24.90% | 9,643 | |
| 1993 | rowspan="7" bgcolor=Template:Party color| | SP | Template:Won | 59,115 | 51.77% | 16,496 | |
| 1996 | Template:Won | 44,399 | 35.17% | 3,407 | |||
| 2002 | Template:Won | 43,398 | 35.36% | 8,156 | |||
| 2007 | Template:Won | 48,624 | 33.08% | 9,871 | |||
| 2012 | Milkipur | Template:Won | 73,804 | 42.24% | 34,237 | ||
| 2017 | Template:Lost | 58,684 | 29.77% | 28,276 | |||
| 2022 | Template:Won | 103,905 | 47.99% | 13,338 | |||
Lok Sabha
| Year | Party | Constituency Name | Result | Votes gained | Vote share% | Margin | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | rowspan="2" bgcolor=Template:Party color| | SP | Akbarpur | Template:Lost | 169,046 | 27.12% | 30,749 |
| 2024[8][9] | Faizabad (Ayodhya) | Template:Won | 554,289 | 48.59% | 54,567 | ||
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 [{{{url}}} For its Dalit outreach, SP puts forward Ayodhya leader with long party, electoral record]. The Indian Express(4 April 2023).
- ↑ Dalits | Voices from the margins(13 July 2024). Retrieved 22 March 2025.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 [{{{url}}} SP propping up Awadhesh Prasad as its Dalit face ahead of LS polls?]. The Times of India.
- ↑ [{{{url}}} बार के विधायक, Mulayam के करीबी दलित नेता... कौन हैं Awadhesh Prasad, जिन्हें सपा ने Faizabad से बनाया लोकसभा प्रत्याशी]. Aaj Tak(31 January 2024).
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 What went wrong for BJP in Ayodhya? Decoding the political shocker. India Today.
- ↑ https://results.eci.gov.in/PcResultGenJune2024/candidateswise-S2454.htm
- ↑ Ayodhya, Kanpur, Gorakhpur and Gonda seats results LIVE updates: SP leads in Ayodhya as BJP's Lallu Singh falls behind. Retrieved 4 Jun 2024.
- ↑ Faizabad Constituency Lok Sabha Election Result 2024(4 June 2024). Retrieved 31 May 2025.
- ↑ 2024 Loksabha Elections Results - Faizabad(4 June 2024). Retrieved 31 May 2025.