Ashok Kumar Pradhan | |
Birth Date: | 13 December 1953 |
Birth Place: | Ghondli, Delhi |
Residence: | Sector-50, Noida |
Office: | Member of Parliament in Lok Sabha |
Term Start: | 1996 |
Term End: | 2009 |
Predecessor: | Roshan Lal |
Successor: | constituency abolished |
Constituency: | Khurja |
Children: | 3 (1 son & 2 daughters) |
Date: | 12 October 2022 |
Source: | https://web.archive.org/web/20040905133230/http://164.100.24.208/ls/lsmember/biodata.asp?mpsno=333 |
Ashok Kumar Pradhan (born 13 December 1953) is an Indian industrialist and politician from Uttar Pradesh.[1] He served as a Member of Parliament (MP) in Lok Sabha representing Khurja (Noida) from 1996 to 2009 as a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate.
Ashok Pradhan is a former minister of state for the Government of India in the third Vajpayee ministry for Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution, and Human Resources & Development.
In April 2014, Pradhan left BJP and joined the Samajwadi Party.[2]