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Anupriya Patel

Anupriya Patel
Minister of State
Assumed office
5 July 2016
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Member of the Indian Parliament
for Mirzapur
Assumed office
16 May 2014
Preceded by Bal Kumar Patel
Personal details
Born 1981
Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh
Political party Apna Dal (2009-2015)
Apna Dal (Sonelal) (2016-present))
Spouse(s) Ashish Kumar Singh
Relations Sone Lal Patel (father)
Krishna Patel (mother)
Residence Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh
Alma mater Lady Shri Ram College for Women, University of Delhi.
Profession Teacher, social worker & politician

Anupriya Patel (born 1981 in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh) is an Indian politician, based in the state of Uttar Pradesh. She is currently the Minister of State in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India.

She was elected to the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India from the constituency of Mirzapur in the 2014 Indian general election. She was previously elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly for the Rohaniya constituency of the Legislature of Uttar Pradesh in Varanasi, where she had fought a campaign in alliance with the Peace Party of India and Bundelkhand Congress in the Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly election, 2012.

Anupriya Patel is the daughter of Sone Lal Patel, who founded the Apna Dal political party that is based in Uttar Pradesh. She was educated at Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Amity University and Kanpur University. She has a master's degrees in Psychology and also Masters in Business Administration (MBA), and has taught at Amity.


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