Mukesh Agnihotri
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Mukesh Agnihotri | |||||||||||||
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.jpg) Agnihotri in 2022 | |||||||||||||
| Deputy Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Assumed office 11 December 2022 | |||||||||||||
| Governor | Rajendra Arlekar (2022–2023) Shiv Pratap Shukla (2023–2026) Kavinder Gupta (2026–present)[1] | ||||||||||||
| Chief Minister | Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu | ||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Position established | ||||||||||||
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| Member of Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |||||||||||||
| Assumed office March 2003 | |||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Jai Kishan Sharma (BJP) | ||||||||||||
| Constituency | Haroli (previously Santokhgarh) | ||||||||||||
| Leader of the Opposition in Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |||||||||||||
| In office 5 January 2018 – 8 December 2022 | |||||||||||||
| Speaker | Rajeev Bindal (till 2020) Vipin Singh Parmar (from 2020) | ||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Prem Kumar Dhumal | ||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Jai Ram Thakur | ||||||||||||
| Chairperson of Himachal Pradesh Congress Committee | |||||||||||||
| In office 27 December 2017 – 11 December 2022 | |||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Virbhadra Singh | ||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu | ||||||||||||
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| Born | 9 October 1962 | ||||||||||||
| Party |  Indian National Congress | ||||||||||||
| Spouse | Prof Simmi Agnihotri | ||||||||||||
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Mukesh Agnihotri (born 9 October 1962) is an Indian politician from Himachal Pradesh representing Indian National Congress.He is the current Deputy Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh.[2] He is also a Member of Legislative Assembly in the Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly from the Haroli Constituency in the Una District of Himachal Pradesh.[3][4]
In 2025, Harsh Mahajan, Member of the Legislative Assembly in the Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly claimed that Mukesh Agnihotri is misleading People of Himachal on Jal Shakti Schemes Funds.[5]
He is a five time MLA from the Haroli Assembly constituency winning the Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly elections in 2003, 2007, 2012, 2017 and 2022. He was inducted into the cabinet as Industries minister with additional charge of Labour and Employment, Parliamentary Affairs, Information and Public Relations from 2012 to 2017.[6][7] He was the leader of the Congress Legislature Party in Himachal Pradesh from 2018 to 2022.[8]
Agnihotri was born in Sangrur, Punjab. He holds a post graduate diploma in public relations and advertisement and an M.Sc. in Mathematics. He married Simmi Agnihotri, a professor at Himachal Pradesh University. She died at the age of 56 due to a cardiac arrest in February 2024.[9] Aastha Agnihotri, their daughter, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Law, Himachal Pradesh University.[10][11]
