Santosh Gangwar (born 1 November 1948) is a Minister of State for Finance in the Government of India. He is a Member of Parliament (16th Lok Sabha), former minister of state in Government of Indiaand a leader of Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP). He has been Member of Parliamentfor the city of Bareilly since 1989 till date (except 2009-2014). He was also the chief whip of the party in 14th Lok Sabha. He faced defeat in the 15th Lok Sabha Elections, 2009 by a very narrow margin. He has been elected as Member of Parliament in 16th Lok Sabha. He won by a margin of over 2.4 lakh votes over his rival candidate in 2014 general election.
Gangwar was jailed during the Emergency for guiding a people’s movement against the then Government. He served as a member of the Uttar Pradesh State BJP Working Committee and held the position of General Secretary of the Uttar Pradesh BJP Unit in 1996.
Gangwar was elected for the first time to the 9th Lok Sabha in 1989 from theBareilly constituency. He represented that constituency continuously until 2009 as a BJP Member of Parliament, which involved six successive terms.
He has held ministerial posts in the Government of India. He was Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas with additional charge of Parliament Affairs in 13th Lok Sabha. Prior to this, Gangwar was Minister of State of Science and Technology with additional charge of Parliamentary Affairs during October and November 1999
Currently, He is Member of Parliament in 16th Lok Sabha.
He served in as Minister of State for Textiles from 26 May 2014 to 5 July 2016, after which he was sworn in as Minister of State for Finance.
Gangwar forayed into national politics in the year 1989, when he got elected from Bareilly in the 9th Lok Sabha on a BJP ticket. In 1996, Gangwar became the General Secretary of the BJP’s Uttar Pradesh unit. Later, he kept on winning from the same constituency and remained an MP in the next six successive terms till 2009. In the 14th Lok Sabha, he was the chief whip of his party, but in the year 2009 elections for 15th Lok Sabha, he had to face defeat by a narrow margin.