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Raj Babbar
Babbar in 2012
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
In office 14 March 2015 – 25 November 2020
Preceded by	Manorama Dobriyal Sharma
Succeeded by	Naresh Bansal
Constituency	Uttarakhand
In office 3 April 1994 – 6 October 1999
Constituency	Uttar Pradesh
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
In office 10 November 2009 – 16 May 2014
Preceded by	Ram Ji Lal Suman
Succeeded by	Akshay Yadav
Constituency	Firozabad, Uttar Pradesh
In office 6 October 1999 – 16 May 2009
Preceded by	Bhagwan Shankar Rawat
Succeeded by	Ram Shankar Katheria
Constituency	Agra, Uttar Pradesh
President of Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee
In office 12 July 2016 – 7 October 2019
AICC President	Sonia Gandhi Rahul Gandhi
Preceded by	Nirmal Khatri
Succeeded by	Ajay Kumar Lallu
Personal details
Born	(1952-06-23) 23 June 1952 (age 73) Tundla, Uttar Pradesh, India
Party	Indian National Congress
Other political affiliations	Samajwadi Party Janata Dal
Spouses	Nadira Babbar ​ (m. 1975)​ Smita Patil ​ ​ (m. 1983; died 1986)​
Children	Arya Juhi Prateik
Relatives	See Babbar family
Alma mater	National School of Drama Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar University
Profession	Actor politician
Years active	1975–present
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Raj Babbar (born 23 June 1952) is an Indian Hindi and Punjabi film actor and politician belonging to Indian National Congress. He is a three-time member of the Lok Sabha and a two-time member of the Rajya Sabha. He was the state President of Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee.^[1]

Early life and education

Babbar was born in Tundla, Uttar Pradesh, into a Punjabi Hindu a Sunar family on 23 June 1952.^[2] His family had settled in Tundla after the partition of India.^[3] Their ancestral roots lie in Jalalpur Jattan, a city now located in the Gujrat District of Punjab in modern-day Pakistan.^[4]

He did his initial schooling from Mufid-E-Aam Inter college, Agra. He is an alumnus of the 1975 class of the National School of Drama (NSD) and graduate from Agra College.^[5][6]

Acting career

Political career

Raj Babbar entered politics by joining Janata Dal in 1989, which was led by V. P. Singh.

From 1994 to 1999 he was a member of the Rajya Sabha. He was re-elected in the 14th Lok Sabha elections for his second term in 2004. He was suspended from Samajwadi Party in 2006. Later he joined Indian National Congress in 2008 and was elected for his fourth term as Member of Parliament in 2009, by defeating Dimple Yadav, wife of Akhilesh Yadav and daughter-in-law of Mulayam Singh Yadav.^[7] In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, he contested from Ghaziabad and lost to General V. K. Singh.^[8] He was appointed as the president of Uttar Pradesh congress committee (UPCC), but in 2019 elections he couldn't even manage to save his own seat and lost to Rajkumar Chahar of the Bharatiya Janata Party by a huge margin of 4,95,065 votes.

Raj Babbar, in the capacity of Congress spokesman, created controversy in 2013, by stating that Rs.12 is sufficient for a common man to get a full meal in Mumbai, which drew severe criticism.^[9] He also said that a poor person in India can get full meals two times a day, within Rs. 28 to 32 and opposition parties termed Raj Babbar's statement laughable.^[9] Later, he regretted his comments.^[10] In July 2013, he compared Narendra Modi to Adolf Hitler, which also created controversy.^[11]

In the 2024 Indian general election, Raj Babbar contested from the Gurgaon Lok Sabha constituency on Indian National Congress ticket. In a tight contest, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate and Union Minister Rao Inderjit Singh registered his fourth straight win from the Gurgaon Lok Sabha constituency, defeating Raj Babbar by 75,079 votes.^[12][13]

Personal life

He is married to Nadira Zaheer, daughter of noted progressive Urdu writer Sajjad Zaheer. The couple have two children together; a son named Arya Babbar and a daughter named Juhi Babbar. He was also married to actress Smita Patil from 1983 to her death in 1986, with whom he has a son named Prateik Babbar.

He has two younger brothers, Kishan and Vinod (deceased) and four younger sisters. Babbar's niece Kajri Babbar is an upcoming filmmaker.^{[14][15][16][17]}

He launched his own home production; Babbar Films Pvt. Ltd. along with his brother Kishan. Under it, he has produced two films, Karm Yodha (1992) and Kash Aap Hamare Hote (2003), and also the TV serial Maharaja Ranjit Singh (TV series) (2010).

Awards and nominations

• 1981: Nominated: Filmfare Award for Best Actor for Insaf Ka Tarazu
• 1984: Nominated: Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor for Agar Tum Na Hote
• 1985: Nominated: Filmfare Award for Best Actor for Aaj Ki Awaaz
• 1994: Nominated: Filmfare Award for Best Performance in a Negative Role for Dalaal
• 1996: Nominated: Filmfare Award for Best Performance in a Negative Role for Yaraana

Filmography

References

External links

• Raj Babbar at IMDb