Shiv Pratap Shukla

Shiv Pratap Shukla (born 1 April 1952) is an Indian politician and statesman. Currently, he is the Governor of Himachal Pradesh. He was the Minister of State for Finance in the First Modi ministry.^[2] He was a Member of Parliament in the upper house (Rajya Sabha) of the Indian Parliament represented the Indian state, Uttar Pradesh.

Shiv Pratap Shukla
Shukla in 2018
22nd Governor of Himachal Pradesh
Incumbent
Assumed office 18 February 2023
President	Droupadi Murmu
Prime Minister	Narendra Modi
Chief Minister	Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu
Dy. Chief Minister	Mukesh Agnihotri
Preceded by	Rajendra Arlekar
Union Minister of State for Finance
In office 3 September 2017 – 30 May 2019
President	Ram Nath Kovind
Prime Minister	Narendra Modi
Preceded by	Santosh Gangwar
Succeeded by	Anurag Thakur
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha[1]
In office 5 July 2016 – 5 July 2022
Preceded by	Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, BJP
Succeeded by	Kapil Sibal
Constituency	Uttar Pradesh
Vice President of Bharatiya Janata Party, Uttar Pradesh
In office 2012–2017
Cabinet Minister, Government of Uttar Pradesh
In office 21 September 1997 – 8 March 2002
Chief Minister	Kalyan Singh Ram Prakash Gupta Rajnath Singh
Member of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
In office 5 December 1989 – 8 March 2002
Preceded by	Sunil Kumar Shastri
Succeeded by	Radha Mohan Das Agarwal
Constituency	Gorakhpur
Personal details
Born	(1952-04-01) 1 April 1952 (age 73) Khajani, Gorakhpur, India
Political party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Residence(s)	Raj Bhavan, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India
Alma mater	Gorakhpur University
Occupation	Politician lawyer statesman

Political career

Member of Legislative Assembly

Shukla campaigned in the General Elections in 1989 and was elected a member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly, defeating Shri Sunil Shastri of INC.^[3] He was elected as Member of the Legislative Assembly four consecutive times in 1989, 1991, 1993 and 1996.^[3]

Minister of state in the BJP government

Shukla was appointed a state minister in Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led governments in Uttar Pradesh. He was appointed the cabinet Minister for Jails^[4][5][6] in 1996–1998 under Bharatiya Janata Party–Bahujan Samaj Party a short-lived coalition government of Mayawati and Kalyan Singh and later on appointed Minister for Rural Development^[7] in year 1998–2002 under BJP government of Rajnath Singh.