Anupriya Patel

Anupriya Singh Patel (born 28 April 1981) is an Indian politician, teacher and social worker from the state of Uttar Pradesh who is the President of Apna Dal (Soneylal) party since 2016 and the Minister of State for Commerce and Industry of India since 7 July 2021.

Patel has been president of Apna Dal since the death of her father in October 2009.

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 from 2012 to 2014.

Anupriya Patel is the daughter of Sone Lal Patel, who founded the Apna Dal (Sonelal) political party that is based in Uttar Pradesh.

She was educated at Lady Shri Ram College for Women and Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University, formerly Kanpur University.

She has a master's degrees in Psychology and also Masters in Business Administration (MBA), and has taught at Amity.

In 2012, she was elected as the member of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election for the Rohaniya constituency in Varanasi.

She represents Mirzapur in the Lok Sabha since 2014.

In the 2014 general election, Patel's party campaigned in alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party, led by Narendra Modi.

She was elected as Member of Parliament from Mirzapur constituency.

After the election, there were rumours that the two parties would merge but Patel rejected overtures intended to result in that.

Krishna Patel is the mother of union minister and Apna Dal (S) president Anupriya Patel.

Krishna Patel became the party president of Apna Dal (Kamerawadi) after Dr. Sone Lal Patel, founder of Apna Dal, died.

Krishna Patel contested unsuccessfully from Pratapgarh Sadar assembly constituency Uttar Pradesh seat for the 2022 election as Samajwadi Party alliance candidate.

Dr. Pallavi Patel is the sister of Anupriya Patel.

Recently, Pallavi Patel appeared in a news headline after defeating Deputy Cm Khesav Prasad Maurya in Sirathu Vidhan Sabha.

She was the Minister of State in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India from 2016 to 2019.