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About Sompal Shastri
- Sompal Shastri or Sompal Singh Shastri (Hindi: ?????????? ????????) (born 20 January 1942) began as a politician of Bharatiya Janata Party from Uttar Pradesh District Chaprauli village Kakor Kalan, India.
- He has been Minister for Agriculture for the national government and a member of the Planning Commission.
- He is Vice Chairman, State Planning Board, Madhya Pradesh. Sompal won in 1998 defeating Rashtriya Lok Dal's chief Ajit Singh from Baghpat.
- But lost to Ajit Singh in 1999 by a margin of over 1.54 lakh votes. Sompal's father was Raghubir Singh Shastri, and represented Baghpat in the fourth Lok Sabha.
- He graduated from high school in Allahabad, 1957; B.A.
- Hons.
- (Economics), Delhi University, 1961; M.A.
- (Economics), Delhi University, 1964; LL.B., Delhi University, 1967. On September 2013, Sompal Shastri refused to contest Lok Sabha polls under the Samajwadi Party banner.
- In a letter written to party president Mulayam Singh Yadav, Mr.
- Shastri said he was not in a position to contest the Lok Sabha polls from Baghpat after the violence in which over 38 people were killed.
- The incidents of communal violence in Muzaffarnagar, Shamli and Baghpat were unfortunate, he said.
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