Yasar Shah

Yasar Shah is an Indian politician and a member of the 16th and 17th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh.[1][2] He represents the Matera constituency of Uttar Pradesh's Bahraich district and is a member of the Samajwadi Party. He was also Minister of State in Uttar Pradesh Government for Power, Coal and New and Renewable Energy, Minister Of State (IC) for Transport, and Minister for Commercial Taxes.[3][2][4][5]

Yasar Shah
MLA, Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh
In office
8 March 2012 – 10 March 2022
Preceded byConstituency created
Succeeded byMariya Ali Shah
ConstituencyMatera
Minister of State in Uttar Pradesh Government
In office
October 2015 – March 2017
Personal details
Born (1977-05-22) 22 May 1977
Bahraich, Uttar Pradesh, India
CitizenshipIndian
Political partySamajwadi Party
SpouseMariya Ali Shah
Parent(s)Waqar Ahmad Shah
Rubab Sayda
Alma materAligarh Muslim University
Technical University, Lucknow (MBA)
ProfessionPolitician
Websiteofficial Website

Birth and education

Yasar Shah was born on 22 May 1977, in Mohalla Qazipura city Bahraich of Uttar Pradesh. His father, Dr. Waqar Ahmad Shah, was a member of the 16th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh from 1993 to 11 March 2017 for the assembly constituency of Bahraich. His mother Rubab Sayda is a former member of the Lok Sabha for the Lok Sabha constituency of Bahraich. Yasar Shah's primary education took place in the city of Bahraich. He was a student of the English School of Bahraich's Seventh-day Adventist Inter College. However, he studied Inter. After that he graduated from the famous Aligarh Muslim University and did an MBA from Babu Banarasi Das Institute Lucknow of Technical University, Lucknow (now Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University)[6] in 2002.

Political life

Yasar Shah started his political journey from election for the district Board of Bahraich in 2005, in which he had won the highest votes. In 2007, from the Nanpara assembly constituency of Bahraich he participated in election on ticket of Samajwadi Party but later he took back his nomination from election.

Yasar Shah has won two elections from Matera constituency so far, the 2012 and 2017 elections, respectively.

In the 2012 Assembly elections Yasar Shah received 41944 votes and defeated Ali Akbar (INC) who received 39143 votes.

Whereas in 2017 Assembly Elections Yasar Shah got 79188 votes and defeated Arun Veer Singh (BJP) who got 77593 votes. In 2013, his father, Dr. Waqar Ahmad Shah became the Minister of Labor and Employment in Akhilesh Yadav's cabinet of Uttar Pradesh Government. In 2014, Yasar Shah joined Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav in his ministry and assumed the post of Minister of state for Power. While working on this post, he has constructed several power houses in the Bahraich City and district Bahraich to improve power supply in the district and city Bahraich. In Bahraich city the underground supply of electricity started, which cost 100 crores. After Mumbai and Delhi, Bahraich is third city where there is underground supply of electricity. Apart from this, there was construction of medical college and trauma center in Bahraich city. Yasar Shah became minister in Akhilesh Yadav's cabinet as Minister of state for Power. Later on he was promoted and made MoS (Independent charge) for Transport. In the final cabinet expansion in 2016 he was again promoted and was made Cabinet Minister for Commercial Taxes and Registration.

Positions held

Yasar Shah is the son of former Cabinet Minister Dr. Waqar Ahmad Shah.

See also

References
  1. ADR. "Yasar Shah(Samajwadi Party(SP)):Constituency- MATERA (BAHRAICH ) - Affidavit Information of Candidate". myneta.info. Retrieved 16 July 2017.
  2. ADR. "Yasar Shah(Samajwadi Party(SP)):Constituency- MATERA(BAHRAICH) - Affidavit Information of Candidate". myneta.info. Retrieved 16 July 2017.
  3. "Energy Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Shri Yasar Shah meeting with Shri Piyush Goyal | Government of India, Ministry of Power". Archived from the original on 9 April 2017. Retrieved 20 March 2017.
  4. "यासर शाह को स्वतंत्र प्रभार मिलने पर खुशी की लहर 13106211". jagran.com. Retrieved 16 July 2017.
  5. "जानिये इस युवा कैबिनेट मंत्री की ख़ासियत, CM से लेकर हर आमजन क्यों करता है इन पर नाज - History about Yasar Shah Political Career in Hindi". www.patrika.com. Retrieved 16 July 2017.
  6. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 March 2017. Retrieved 20 March 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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