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Satish Poonia
Indian politician From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Satish Subhashchandra Poonia (born 24 October 1964) is an Indian politician from Rajasthan. He was member of the 15th Rajasthan Assembly from Amber. He served as the state president of Bharatiya Janata Party for Rajasthan. He briefly also served as deputy leader of the opposition in Rajasthan Assembly. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party.[1][2][3][4]
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Early life and education
Poonia was born in Rajgarh, a small village in Churu district of Rajasthan.[5] He graduated from Maharaja College in 1989. Later, he did L.L.B from Rajasthan University. He holds a diploma in labor law, criminology and Indian history and culture from Law College. In 1994, he finished M.Sc. in geography and after that did Ph.D. in geography from Rajasthan University.[6]
Political career
Mainstream politics
Poonia worked as State General Secretary in Bharatiya Janata Party, Rajasthan from 2004 to 2006 and as State Morcha in charge from 2006 to 2007. He has been the State General Secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Party four times from 2004 to 2014 with various organisational responsibilities, from intensive migration from remote tribal areas to marginal desert areas, strengthening the party from village to village, and successfully led various political movements.

In the year 2011, he was the convener of senior BJP leader L.K. Advani’s Jan Chetna Yatra. In 2013, contributed to the successful running of “Suraj Sankalp Yatra 2013” by then BJP State President Smt. Vasundhara Raje. He played a very important role in the Haryana Vidhan Sabha elections of 2010 and 2015.[citation needed]
In the 2018 Rajasthan Legislative Assembly election, he secured victory in the Amber constituency. He defeated Prashant Sharma of the Indian National Congress (INC) by a margin of 13,276 votes.[7]
On 5 July 2023, he was announced as the state in-charge for Haryana for upcoming assembly polls.[8]
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