Brijmohan Agrawal | |
Birth Date: | 1 May 1959 |
Birth Place: | Raipur, Madhya Pradesh, India (now in Chhattisgarh, India) |
Residence: | Shankar Nagar, Raipur |
Office: | Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha |
Predecessor: | Sunil Soni |
Term Start: | 4 June 2024 |
Constituency: | Raipur |
Office1: | Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Minister of Tourism, Minister of Education Government of Chhattisgarh |
1Blankname1: | Chief Minister |
1Namedata1: | Vishnu Deo Sai |
Successor1: | Vishnu Deo Sai |
Predecessor1: |
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Term Start1: | 13 December 2023 |
Term End1: | 19 June 2024 |
Office2: | Member of Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly |
Constituency2: | Raipur South |
Successor2: | Sunil Kumar Soni |
Predecessor2: | Constituency established |
Term Start2: | December 2008 |
Term End2: | 17 June 2024 |
Successor3: | constituency abolished |
Predecessor3: | Swarupchand Jain |
Constituency3: | Raipur Town |
Term Start3: | 1990 |
Term End3: | 2008 |
Office4: | Minister of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Fisheries, Ayacut, Water Resources, Government of Chhattisgarh |
1Blankname4: | Chief Minister |
1Namedata4: | Raman Singh |
Successor4: | Ravindra Choubey |
Predecessor4: | Chandra Shekhar Sahu |
Term Start4: | 9 December 2013 |
Term End4: | 11 December 2018 |
Office5: | Minister of Parliamentary affairs, Government of Chhattisgarh |
1Blankname5: | Chief Minister |
1Namedata5: | Raman Singh |
Successor5: | Ajay Chandrakar |
Predecessor5: | Ajay Chandrakar |
Term Start5: | 22 December 2008 |
Term End5: | 11 December 2013 |
Office6: | Minister of Public Works Department, School Education, Government of Chhattisgarh |
1Blankname6: | Chief Minister |
1Namedata6: | Raman Singh |
Successor6: | Rajesh Munat |
Predecessor6: | Rajesh Munat |
Term Start6: | 8 December 2008 |
Term End6: | 8 December 2013 |
Office7: | Minister of Culture and Tourism Government of Chhattisgarh |
1Blankname7: | Chief Minister |
1Namedata7: | Raman Singh |
Successor7: | Ajay Chandrakar |
Predecessor7: | Dhanendra Sahu |
Term Start7: | 7 December 2003 |
Term End7: | 8 December 2013 |
Office8: | Minister of Sports and Youth Welfare, Government of Chhattisgarh |
1Blankname8: | Chief Minister |
1Namedata8: | Raman Singh |
Successor8: | Lata Usendi |
Term Start8: | 11 February 2006 |
Term End8: | 7 December 2008 |
Office9: | Cabinet Minister of Revenue and Disaster Management Rehabilitation, Law and Legislative Affairs, Government of Chhattisgarh |
1Blankname9: | Chief Minister |
1Namedata9: | Raman Singh |
Successor9: | Amar Agrawal |
Predecessor9: | Nanki Ram Kanwar |
Term Start9: | 18 June 2005 |
Term End9: | 7 December 2008 |
Office10: | Minister of Home Affairs, Government of Chhattisgarh |
1Blankname10: | Chief Minister |
1Namedata10: | Dr. Raman Singh |
Successor10: | Ramvichar Netam |
Predecessor10: | Nandkumar Patel |
Term Start10: | 7 December 2003 |
Term End10: | 18 June 2005 |
Office11: | Minister of Labour Government of Chhattisgarh |
1Blankname11: | Chief Minister |
1Namedata11: | Raman Singh |
Successor11: | Hemchand Yadav |
Predecessor11: | Shankar Sodhi |
Term Start11: | 7 December 2003 |
Term End11: | 18 June 2005 |
Office12: | Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Local Administration, Urban development, Tourism and Culture, Science, Technology, Government of Madhya Pradesh |
Term Start12: | 1990 |
Term End12: | 1992 |
Party: | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Spouse: | Sunita Agrawal |
Children: | 3 |
Date: | 30 October 2024 |
Alma Mater: | Pandit Ravishankar Shukla University |
Brijmohan Agrawal (born 1 May 1959) is an Indian politician from Chhattisgarh. He is a member of the Lok Sabha from Raipur.[1] He was an eight time Member of Vidhan Sabha representing Raipur Town & later Raipur City South from 1990 till 2024. He served as minister in several departments of the Madhya Pradesh government and, after formation, the Chhattisgarh government. Most recently he was in Sai cabinet from 2023 to 2024.[2] [3] He is a senior member of the Bharatiya Janata Party.[4]
Agrawal is from Raipur, Chhattisgarh. He married Sunita and they have three children. He completed his M.Com. in 1982 at Pandit Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur.[5]
He was first elected to Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly in 1990 from Raipur Town Constituency and was re-elected in 1993 and 1998 from the same constituency. After the creation of Chhattisgarh out of Madhya Pradesh, he was elected to Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly in 2003 from same seat and became Cabinet Minister for Home, Prison, Culture and Tourism. He was given charge of Revenue, Culture, and Tourism, Law and Rehabilitation in 2005 and additional charge of forest, sports and youth Affairs in 2006.
In 2008, Raipur Town seat got delimitised and divided into 4 seats and he contested from Raipur City South and won by margin of 65,686 and became Cabinet Minister for School Education, Public Works Department, Parliamentary Affairs, Tourism, and Endowment Trust Culture in second Raman Singh's Ministry. He retained the seat in 2013 from Raipur City South by margin of 34,799 and became Cabinet Minister for Agriculture & Bio-Technology, Animal Husbandry, Fish Rearing, Water Resources, Irrigation, Ayacut and Religious Trusts & Endowment in Raman Singh Third ministry. In 2018, he reached the assembly from Raipur South for the third time in a row with 77,589 votes. in 2023, for the fourth [6] In the 2018 elections, Agrawal was the MLA with the lowest winning margin.
In the 2023 assembly elections, he became MLA for the eighth consecutive time. This was his fourth consecutive win from Raipur South in which he defeated Mahant Ramsundar Das of Dudhdhari Math by a huge margin. After which he became the Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Tourism and Education in the Vishnudev Sai government.
Four months after becoming a minister, he contested the 2024 Lok Sabha elections from Raipur on BJP ticket and won the election by a huge margin. Agrawal defeated his closest rival Vikas Upadhyay of the Congress by about 5.75 lakh votes. It was one of the biggest electoral victories in the country in 2024 elections.