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Guest: Ravi Shanker Prasad

Ravi Shankar Prasad is an Indian lawyer, politician and the present Union Minister holding Ministry of Communications and Information Technology in Government of India. He is a Member of Parliament in (Rajya Sabha) and represents Bihar. He has adopted village Alawalpur under Fatuha block of Patna district as model village to be developed under the Pradhan Mantri Adarsh Gram Yojana. He is a Member of Bharatiya Janata Party. He is a designated senior advocate at the Supreme Court of India.

Updated Information as of April 2026:
  • Current Position: He is an MP (Lok Sabha) from Patna Sahib and a senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
  • Committee Chairmanship: In March 2026, he was appointed to head the Lok Sabha's Committee of Privileges.
  • Party Role: In 2025 and 2026, he was appointed as a central observer by the BJP for organizational matters, including party elections in West Bengal and Delhi.
  • Previous Cabinet Positions: While the prompt notes him as the current Communications Minister, he held the portfolios of Law and Justice, Communications, and Electronics and Information Technology from 2019 to 2021 before leaving the cabinet in July 2021.
  • 2024 Election: He retained his seat in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, defeating Congress candidate Dr. Anshul Avijit.

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