SPS Baghel
Prof. Satya Pal Singh Baghel is an Indian politician and Member of Parliament (Loksabha). He is the Union Minister of State in the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, and the Ministry of Panchayati Raj A member of Bharatiya Janata Party, he got elected to 17th Lok Sabha from Agra and again to 18th Lok Sabha from the same constituency. He previously got elected to Lok Sabha thrice and to Rajya Sabha once as a member of Bahujan Samaj Party.
Baghel has a bachelor of law degree, a master’s degree in science and a doctoral degree.
In 1998, 1999 and 2004, Baghel represented the Samajwadi Party three times in the Lok Sabha from Jalesar, Uttar Pradesh. After these three terms, Baghel was suspended from his party. In 2010, Baghel was elected to the Rajya Sabha (Council of States) but then in the following election, lost to the Bhartiya Janta Party candidate.
In 1998 and 1999, Baghel was a member of committees on subordinate legislation, human resource development and health and family welfare. In 1999 and 2000, he was a member of committees on food, civil supplies and public distribution and an estimates committee. Between 2000 and 2004, he worked in the Ministry of Home Affairs and on committees of public undertaking, external affairs and member attendance in the House.
