| Lakkhiram Agarwal | |
| Term Start: | 1 November 2000 |
| Term End: | 9 April 2002 |
| Term Start2: | 10 April 1990 |
| Term End2: | 31 October 2000 |
| Birth Date: | 1932 2, df=yes |
| Spouse: | Marwan Devi |
| Children: | Amar Agrawal,Sajan Agrawal,Manoj Agrawal, Bajrang Agrawal |
| Parents: | Mansha Ram Agarwal (father) Rukmani Devi (mother) |
| Education: | Middle school |
| Occupation: | Philanthropist, Social worker, Humanitarian, Businessman |
Lakkhiram Agarwal (13 February 1932 – 24 January 2009) was an Indian politician from the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP). He was a member of the Rajya Sabha from 1990 to 2002 representing Madhya Pradesh and later Chhattisgarh.[1] He was the state president of the BJP in Madhya Pradesh from 1990 to 2000, and became the state president of Chhattisgarh BJP after the bifurcation of Madhya Pradesh.[2]
Lakhiram Agrawal was born on 13 February 1932 to Mansha Ram Agrawal and Rukmani Devi in Kharsia, Raigarh district.[1] He married Marwan Devi in 1950 and had five sons and one daughter. His son Amar Agrawal is a cabinet minister in the Government of Chhattisgarh, holding the portfolios of Taxation, Commerce and the Public health Department.[2] [3] He was educated until middle school in Naharpalli, Kharsia.[1]
Agrawal became active in politics in 1960.[2] He had served as the chairman of Kharsia municipal council from 1964 to 1969, the president of the District Cooperative Bank, Raigarh from 1977 to 1980, and the vice-president of the Madhya Pradesh State Marketing Association from 1977 to 1980.[1] He was detained under the Maintenance of Internal Security Act in 1975 during the emergency.[2] He became the State General Secretary of Madhya Pradesh BJP in 1983.[4] He was a member of the Rajya Sabha from 10 April 1990 to 31 October 2000 representing Madhya Pradesh, and from 1 November 2000 to 9 April 2002 representing Chhattisgarh.[5] Agrawal was a supporter of the formation of Chhattisgarh as a separate state.[6] Nand Kumar Sai, in a 2010 interview, said that Agrawal was one of the contenders for the chief minister post after the 2003 Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly election, along with Raman Singh and Dilip Singh Judeo.[7]
Agrawal died on 24 January 2009 after being admitted to Apollo Hospital, Bilaspur.[8] He was cremated with state honors in Kharsia. Raman Singh, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Kailash Chandra Joshi, Sumitra Mahajan, and Vikram Verma attended the funeral and paid their tributes to Agrawal.[2] Chauhan termed Agrawal as "an organiser and a devotee of nationalist values".[8]
A medical college in Raigarh was named after Agrawal in 2013.[9] During the inauguration of a statue of Agrawal by Nitin Gadkari in Kharsia, Raman Singh said that Agrawal was a contributor to the "identity of Chhattisgarh as a developed state".[10]