Shri Brajesh Pathak (born 25 June 1964) is an Indian politician and a member of the 18th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh. Presently, Brajesh Ji is serving as the 7th Deputy Chief Minister (alongside Shri Keshav Prasad Maurya) and Cabinet Minister of Medical Education, Medical and Health and Family Welfare in the Government of Uttar Pradesh under Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.
He has also been a Lok Sabha MP from the Unnao constituency from 2004 to 2009. In the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, he won by a good margin from the Lucknow Cantonment constituency in Lucknow district.
Early life and education
Brajesh Pathak was born to Mr. Supresh Pathak and Mrs. Kalka Pathak in Mallawan, Hardoi district of Uttar Pradesh. He is a accountant by profession. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Lucknow University.
Personal life
Pathak is was born on 25 June 1964 in Mallawan and is married to Manpreet Pathak.
In 2017, he was elected as an MLA from Lucknow Central and was appointed Cabinet Minister of Law and Justice in the Government of Uttar Pradesh. He was sworn in as the Cabinet Minister for Law and Legislative, Additional Sources of Energy and Political Pensions on 19 March 2017. On 21 August 2019, after the first cabinet expansion of the Yogi government, his portfolio was changed to that of the Minister of Legislative, Justice, Rural Engineering Services. On 25 March 2022, he became the 7th Deputy Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh.