Rajesh Agarwal

Rajesh Agarwal is an Indian politician belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party who is currently serving as its National Treasurer^[2] and former Minister of finance in the Government of Uttar Pradesh. He previously served as Cabinet Minister of trade tax and institutional finance in 2001, and as Deputy Speaker of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly from 2003 to 2007. He then served as the Finance cabinet minister again from 2017 to 2019 in the Yogi government. He resigned as cabinet minister after he had reached 75 years of age. BJP promoted him as the National Treasurer of BJP.

Rajesh Agarwal
Finance Minister, Uttar Pradesh
In office March 2017 – August 2019
Chief Minister	Yogi Adityanath
Preceded by	Akhilesh Yadav
Succeeded by	Suresh Kumar Khanna
Treasurer, Bharatiya Janata Party
Incumbent
Assumed office 26 September 2020
Preceded by	Piyush Goyal[1]
Constituency	Bareilly Cantt
Member of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
In office 2012–2022
Preceded by	Virendra Singh
In office 1993–2012
Preceded by	Dinesh Johri
Succeeded by	Arun Kumar Saxena
Constituency	Bareilly
Personal details
Born	Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh
Nationality	Indian
Political party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Other political affiliations	National Democratic Alliance
Residence	Bareilly District
Alma mater	M. J. P. Rohilkhand University

Agarwal was a member of the assembly elected from Bareilly Cantoment. He had continuously held the seat for 29 years in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative assembly. He holds several key positions in the Bharatiya Janata party.^[3]

Positions Held

Rajesh Agarwal has been elected to Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly for 6 terms.^[4][5]

#	From	To	Position
1	1993	1995	Member, 12th Legislative Assembly from Bareilly Assembly constituency
2	1996	2002	Member, 13th Legislative Assembly from Bareilly Assembly constituency
3	2002	2007	Member, 14th Legislative Assembly from Bareilly Assembly constituency
4	2007	2012	Member, 15th Legislative Assembly from Bareilly Assembly constituency
5	2012	2017	Member, 16th Legislative Assembly from Bareilly Cantonment Assembly constituency
6	2017	2022	Member, 17th Legislative Assembly from Bareilly Cantonment Assembly constituency