Summary:
In 1996, I was offered ticket from BSP, and later in 1998, SP gave me a ticket to contest the 12th Lok Sabha election from Jalesar. A former local intelligence unit sleuth, Baghel has also served as a security officer of Mulayam Singh Yadav briefly. After another Rajya Sabha member from BSP in 2009, Baghel joined BJP, won the 2017 assembly polls from Tundla and is currently a state cabinet minister. AGRA: When Narendra Modi became the chief minister of Gujarat in 2001, SP Singh Baghel, 60, was already serving his second term as Samajwadi Party MP from Jalesar. In the same year, he was made the state president of Samajwadi Party’s youth brigade.“During my higher studies, I joined students’ politics..