ARYA, SHRI R.N Permanent address: (i) 1254, Bhim Nagar, Sadar Bazar, Mathura and (ii) 68-69A, Shah Kunj, Near Chandanvan, Mathura-281001.

B.A.; B.S.P. (Uttar Pradesh); s. of late Shri Nand Lal and Shrimati Ram Pyari Devi; b. at Nagla Sahatu, Post-Indrawakhi, Etawah, December 4, 1952; ed. at (i) Sri Bihari Inter College Aheripur, (ii) Janata Inter College, Ajitmal and (ii) K.R. Degree College, Mathura; m. Shrimati Rajya Gautami Arya, May, 1971; 4 s.

Political and Social Worker; took voluntary retirement from Telecom Department as a Telephone Operator on November 8, 1996; worked in Dalit Organisations and Budhist Society of India; General Secretary, Bahujan Samaj Party, Uttar Pradesh; Functionary, BAMCEF, Agra Mandal, 1979-96; Member, (i) Committee on Subordinate Legislation and (ii) Committee on Communications and (iii) Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Civil Aviation; elected to the Rajya Sabha in November, 1996.

Publications: Author of Shoshit Kranti (Hindi), 1967.

Special interest: Social service.

Favourite pastime and recreation: Reading literature, philosophy and religion.