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Ravi Shankar Prasad

1954 - Today

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Ravi Shankar Prasad (born 30 August 1954) is an Indian politician and lawyer, from the Bharatiya Janata Party. A Member of Parliament since 2000, first in the Rajya Sabha (2000–2019) and then in the Lok Sabha (since 2019), Prasad has served as Union Minister multiple times: As Minister of State, he served in the ministries of Coal (2001–2003), Law and Justice (2002–2003), and Information and Broadcasting (2003–2004) under Atal Bihari Vajpayee's premiership; as Cabinet Minister, he held the Law and Justice (2014, 2016–2021), Communications (2014–2016, 2019–2021), and Electronics and Information Technology (2014–2021) portfolios under Narendra Modi's premiership. His term as Union Minister was marked with the repeal of 1500 archaic laws, handling of litigation over the purchase of Rafale fighter planes, and digitization of 15000 trial courts. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ravi Shankar Prasad has received more than 1,876,166 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Ravi Shankar Prasad is the 17,829th most popular politician (down from 16,769th in 2019), the 1,029th most popular biography from India (down from 942nd in 2019) and the 276th most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ravi Shankar Prasad ranks 17,829 out of 19,576. Before him are Mercedes Cabrera, Russell A. Alger, Nathalie Loiseau, Rod Blagojevich, Elena Cattaneo, and Julia Klöckner. After him are Eoin MacNeill, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Jacqui Smith, Ella Grasso, Patrick M. Shanahan, and Moshood Abiola.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Ravi Shankar Prasad ranks 652. Before him are Lindiwe Sisulu, Phil Thompson, Iain Duncan Smith, Jeffrey Ashby, Jill Abramson, and Rodney Brooks. After him are Andrea Gyarmati, Robert W. McElroy, Arturo Rodas, James Gleick, Sammy McIlroy, and Eberhard Rösch.

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In India

Among people born in India, Ravi Shankar Prasad ranks 1,029 out of 1,861. Before him are Charles Correa (1930), Kishori Amonkar (1932), Rajpal Yadav (1971), Mehboob Khan (1907), Vishnuvardhan (1950), and Gita Gopinath (1971). After him are Mohammed Zahur Khayyam (1927), Zubeida (1911), Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw (1953), Ravi Shastri (1962), Mohanlal (1960), and Daler Mehndi (1967).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Ravi Shankar Prasad ranks 276. Before him are J. P. Nadda (1960), Tarun Gogoi (1936), Amarinder Singh (1942), V. N. Janaki (1923), Manohar Lal Khattar (1954), and Janaki Ballabh Patnaik (1927). After him are Ravi Shastri (1962), Harkishan Singh Surjeet (1916), Manohar Parrikar (1955), Ahmed Patel (1949), Akhilesh Yadav (1973), and Nasir-ud-Daulah (1794).

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