Ravi Shankar Prasad Caste

BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad was born into an upper caste Kayastha family.

Image of Ravi Shankar Prasad
Image of Ravi Shankar Prasad

Ravi Shankar Prasad Family

Prasad was born in Patna, Bihar. His father Thakur Prasad was a senior advocate at the Patna High Court. Later he was one of the leading founders of the Jan Sangh, the predecessor of the Bharatiya Janata Party.

His sister, Anuradha Prasad wife of Mr Rajeev Shukla is the owner of BAG Films and Media Ltd. which owns many television channels, including highly popular News 24.

Later Prasad earned BA Hons, MA (Political Science) and LL.B degrees from Patna University and has a son and a daughter.
He has two children one son and one daughter.

On 3 February 1982, Prasad married Maya Shankar, who is a Historian and Professor of History at Patna University.

Ravi Shankar Prasad Biography

Later Prasad has been practising at the Patna High Court since 1980. Soon he was designated senior advocate at the Patna High Court in 1999 and Senior Advocate at the Supreme Court of India in 2000.

Prasad was the main lawyer arguing the PIL against former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad Yadav in the fodder scam that led to the jailing of several politicians and officials, including Lalu Prasad.

He is the lawyer in the Ayodhya Ram temple title suit case representing ‘Ram Lalla’, the deity, in the case.

He has represented former Deputy Prime Minister L. K. Advani and has appeared in several leading cases including Narmada Bachao Andolan Case, T. N. Thirumulpad environment cases, Bihar assembly dissolution case among others

Ravi Shankar Prasad Minister

Prasad began his political career as a student leader in the 1970s organising protests against Indira Gandhi’s government. Government jailed him when Gandhi’s government imposed the emergency in 1975.

Later he worked in the student movement in Bihar under the leadership of Jayaprakash Narayan and was an active volunteer of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP).

He held various posts in the organisations with Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and ABVP.

During his college days he was Assistant General Secretary of the Patna University Students Union and member of the Senate, Finance Committee, Arts and Law Faculties of the University.

Prasad has held several national-level assignments in the youth wing and the main party organisation of the BJP. Since 1995 Prasad has been a member of BJP National Executive, the party’s top policymaking body.

During the NDA Government under Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s prime ministership, Prasad held the position of Minister of State in the Ministry of Coal and Mines, the Ministry of Law and Justice, and the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.

In 2018, he was featured among top twenty most influential world leader in Digital and e-Government.

Media credited him for make India a big hub of electronics and mobile manufacturing by adding 120 manufacturing units in his stint. Media also credited him for bringing digital TV to India and was also the brain behind corporatisation of the Indian film industry.

After 2019 Lok Sabha election, he continued Ministry of Law and Justice and Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. He was also given the charge of Communication Ministry in the Government of India

Ravi Shankar Prasad Daughter Marriage

Aditi Shanker is the daughter of the Union Minister and veteran BJP leader Ravi Shanker Prasad. She completed schooling from Patna and later went to the USA for higher education. She fell in love in the US.

Aditi married Ajay Iyer. A Bihari girl has tied nuptial knot with a Tamil Nadu guy. A Kayastha girl is hooked for life with a Tamil Brahmin boy.

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