Yashpal Arya

Yashpal Arya
Yashpal Arya
Minister of Transport, Government of Uttarakhand
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; March 2017
Speaker of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly
	In office; 2002 - 2007
MLA of Uttarakhand
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 2017
Constituency	Bajpur
Personal details
Born	8 January 1952 (age 72)
Nationality	Indian
Political party	Bhartiya Janata Party(from 2017); Indian National Congress(before 2017)

Yashpal Arya is a Minister of Transport in Government of Uttarakhand. He is a Bharatiya Janata Party leader and member of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly. He was former Speaker of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly and former Indian National Congress leader.^[1]^[2] He was elected from Mukteshwar constituency in the 2007 Uttarakhand state assembly elections.

He was the President of the Congress Party's Uttarakhand Pradesh Congress Committee (Uttarakhand PCC) from 2007 through 2014.^[3] He was elected from Bajpur Assembly constituency in 2012 and was being thought to be the frontrunner for the chief ministerial candidature until the Congress high command made Vijay Bahuguna , son of former Uttar Pradesh CM late Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna swear into the post.

On 16 January 2017, Arya joined the Bharatiya Janata Party .^[4]

Positions held

Year	Description
1989 - 1991	Elected to 10th Uttar Pradesh Assembly
1993 - 1996	Elected to 12th Uttar Pradesh Assembly(2nd term)
2002 - 2007	Elected to 1st Uttarakhand Assembly (3rd term) Speaker - Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly
2007 - 2012	Elected to 2nd Uttarakhand Assembly (4th term) Member, Committee on Government Assurances (2009 – 12) Member, Committee on Housing (2010 – 12)
2012 - 2017	Elected to 3rd Uttarakhand Assembly (5th term) Cabinet Minister for Revenue and Land Management, Irrigation, Flood Control, Co-operatives, Technical Education, Rural Engineering Services, Rural Roads and Drainage, Indo-Nepal-Uttarakhand River Projects
2017 - 2022	Elected to 4th Uttarakhand Assembly (6th term) Cabinet Minister for Transportation, Social Welfare, Minority Welfare, Students Welfare, Rural Water Reservoirs Development, Remote Areas Development, Sub-Divisional Development and Management, Backward Areas Development

References

https://www.newstodaynetwork.com/haldwani-social-welfare-minister-arya-can-contest-in-the-lok-sabha-election-such-a-benefit/

Party political offices
Preceded by Harish Rawat	President Uttarakhand Pradesh Congress Committee 2007 – 13 June 2014	Succeeded by Kishore Upadhyaya

[1] "Yashpal Arya frontrunner for Uttarakhand CM's post". The Times of India. 10 March 2012.

[2] U’khand Cong manages to win rebels for magic figure

[3] "Office Bearers". Uttarakhand Pradesh Congress Committee, Official website.

[4] ttp://indianexpress.com/article/india/uttarakhand-senior-congress-leader-yashpal-arya-joins-bjp-4476623/

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