New Delhi: From an funding banker to qualifying for the civil providers, to returning to the finance sector, earlier than lastly taking the plunge into politics to “serve society” — that has been the profession trajectory of Saket Misra, BJP’s candidate from Shravasti constituency in Uttar Pradesh for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
Saket is the son of Nripendra Misra, who was principal secretary to Prime Minister Narendra Modi from 2014 to 2019 and was as soon as thought-about among the many strongest civil servants within the Prime Minister’s Workplace (PMO).
Whereas he has donned many hats up to now, Saket, presently a nominated member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council, appointed final yr, now needs to give attention to his “ardour to serve the individuals by way of politics”, he advised ThePrint.
Saket studied economics at Delhi’s St Stephen’s School, following which he obtained a administration diploma from the Indian Institute of Administration (IIM), Calcutta, in 1993. He then joined Deutsche Financial institution and appeared for the civil providers examination a yr later.
He certified for the Indian Police Service (UP cadre) in 1994 however “by no means joined it”, as a substitute selecting to pursue a profession in funding banking.
Saket subsequently collected over 20 years of expertise in worldwide funding banking and held numerous Asia Pacific management positions at Deutsche Financial institution and Royal Financial institution of Scotland in Singapore and Hong Kong.
He moved to India in 2016 and shifted his give attention to improvement and poverty alleviation, particularly in japanese Uttar Pradesh (UP), the Purvanchal area, he mentioned.
A yr after he formally joined the BJP in 2018, Saket was appointed adviser to the Purvanchal Vikas Board to advise the federal government on holistic improvement of japanese UP, masking round 27 districts. “On this function, I offered holistic improvement inputs to the state authorities, specializing in sustainable poverty alleviation,” he advised ThePrint.
He’s additionally an adjunct lecturer on the Indian Institute of Company Affairs, below the company affairs ministry.
“For over 18 years, I served as an funding banker and at last, I made a decision to come back again to India and observe my ardour, which is social service. Earlier too, I used to come back to japanese UP as it’s my nanihaal (maternal grandmother’s birthplace). I made a decision to make the leap into politics to serve the individuals, impressed by PM Modi’s imaginative and prescient of a brand new, vibrant and meritocratic India,” Saket advised ThePrint.
His father Nripendra Misra was appointed chairman of the temple building committee of the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Belief in February 2020.
Terming the development of the Ram Mandir as a “nice achievement” of the Modi authorities, Saket asserted that it had “corrected the historic anomaly in our nation”.
“I spend at the least 20 days in a month in Shravasti. I’m lucky to have a spouse who believes that we must always observe our desires and keenness. My household, my father and mom have all the time inspired me,” he added.
Requested whether or not his members of the family would marketing campaign for him, Saket mentioned that “my mom will certainly do as she hails from there (Shravasti)”.
Saket’s maternal grandfather Badlu Ram Shukla was a Lok Sabha MP from UP’s Bahraich.
A BJP functionary advised ThePrint that “his (Saket’s) father’s cordial relationship with PM Modi is well-known”.
“Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had appointed him (Saket) as adviser to the Purvanchal Vikas Board. The social gathering took suggestions from the bottom in addition to the state and Saket was lastly given the ticket,” he added.
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A have a look at Shravasti
Shravasti Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh includes 5 meeting constituencies — two from Shravasti district and three from Balrampur district.
The Shravasti seat, which includes a lot of the erstwhile Balrampur seat, is taken into account a high-profile one since Balrampur is from the place former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee received his first Lok Sabha election in 1957. Shravasti can be thought-about the abode of the Lord Buddha.
Lok Sabha elections had been held in Shravasti for the primary time in 2009 because the seat got here into existence in 2008 on account of a delimitation train. Vinay Kumar Pandey of the Congress received the seat in 2009.
In 2014, Samajwadi Celebration declared gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed as its candidate from Shravasti however he misplaced to the BJP’s Daddan Mishra. In 2019, Ram Shiromani Verma received the seat, contesting on a Bahujan Samaj Celebration (BSP) ticket.
(Edited by Nida Fatima Siddiqui)
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