Prahlad Singh Patel,

Some Lesser Known Facts About Prahlad Singh Patel

• Prahlad Singh Patel is an Indian politician who is politically affiliated with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Prahlad is an elected member of parliament from the Damoh constituency of Maharashtra. The five-time MP Prahlad Singh Patel took independent charge as the Union Minister of State for the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Tourism in May 2019.

• Prahlad Singh Patel has been associated with the saffron party for over four decades. He started his political career as a student leader of Akhil Bharatiya Vidhyarthi Parishad (ABVP) in the late 70s, grabbed the post of the Balaghat district president of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) in 1982, and gradually ascended the ranks to emerge as a significant leader of the BJP in Madhya Pradesh.

  

• Prahlad is the founder of Narmada Khand Seva Sansthan Masandha, an NGO involved in various social welfare activities from conducting blood donation and eye donation camps to educating unprivileged children.

• He was the national president of the Bharatiya Janata Mazdoor Mahasangh and the Bharatiya Janata Mazdoor Morcha from 2011 to 2014.

• An LLB graduate, Prahlad Singh Patel is a former member of the Jawaharlal Nehru University court.

• A strict vegetarian by food habit, Prahlad is a member of the Vegetarian Council Committee that encourages people for adopting a completely vegetarian diet.

• For a long time, Patel has stayed devoted to promoting and conserving the Indian culture. His devotion towards the culture of India is one of the prime reasons why he was given the responsibility to head the Ministry of Culture in the Modi administration in 2019.

  

• He is among the very politicians who have done Narmada river parikrama, a 3500 km walk along the banks of the river. The Narmada Parikrama pilgrimage is considered sacred in Hinduism.

  

• He introduced a private bill for a ban on cow slaughter in Parliament in 2000.