Sangh Priya Gautam

Sangh Priya Gautam (b 1931) is a former Union minister of state for agro and rural industries of India. He was minister in the Third Vajpayee ministry between 2003 to 2004. He was born in 1931 in Bulandshahr district in Uttar Pradesh in India and studied at law Aligarh Muslim University. A Lawyer by profession, he was elected to Rajya Sabha in 1990 and in 1998 as a candidate of Bharatiya Janata Party.

He was BJP candidate for Hapur (Lok Sabha constituency) in 1984 when he came third. Later he was elected to Rajya Sabha twice. After the defeat of Vajpayee Government in 2004 General Election, Shri Gautam started to complain about being sidelined in the party and was suspended in 2006 for anti-party activities. He was admitted back in the party in 2011. Even in 2010s after re-joining BJP, he continued to be a vocal critic of the party.