| office2 = Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha{{Cite web | url=http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/samajwadi-party-wins-7-rajya-sabha-seats-in-up-kapil-sibal-emerges-victorious-1418013 |title = Samajwadi Party Wins 7 Rajya Sabha Seats in UP, Kapil Sibal Emerges Victorious}}

| term_start2 = 5 July 2016

| term_end2 = 5 July 2022

| constituency2 = Uttar Pradesh

| predecessor2 = Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, BJP

| successor2 = Kapil Sibal

| office3 = Vice President of Bharatiya Janata Party, Uttar Pradesh

| term_start3 = 2012

| term_end3 = 2017

| office4 = Cabinet Minister, Government of Uttar Pradesh

| constituency4 =

| term_start4 = 21 September 1997

| term_end4 = 8 March 2002

| 1blankname4 = Chief Minister

| 1namedata4 = *Kalyan Singh

| office6 = Member of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly

| term_start6 = 5 December 1989

| term_end6 = 8 March 2002

| predecessor6 = Sunil Kumar Shastri

| successor6 = Radha Mohan Das Agarwal

| constituency6 = Gorakhpur

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1952|04|01}}

| birth_place = Khajani, Gorakhpur, India

| residence = Raj Bhavan, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India

| death_date =

| death_place =

| party = Bharatiya Janata Party

| alma_mater = Gorakhpur University

| occupation = {{hlist|Politician|lawyer|statesman}}

| signature =

}}

Shiv Pratap Shukla (born 1 April 1952) is an Indian politician and statesman. Currently, he is the Governor of Himachal Pradesh. He was the Minister of State for Finance in the First Modi ministry.{{Cite web | url=http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/cabinet-reshuffle-shiv-pratap-shukla-gets-finance-ministry-in-pm-narendra-modis-government-1745510 | title=Shiv Pratap Shukla Gets Finance Ministry in PM Narendra Modi's Cabinet}} He was a Member of Parliament in the upper house (Rajya Sabha) of the Indian Parliament represented the Indian state, Uttar Pradesh.

Political career

=Member of Legislative Assembly=

Shukla campaigned in the General Elections in 1989 and was elected a member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly, defeating Shri Sunil Shastri of INC.{{cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/archive/May2007/pollupd/ac/states/s24/Partycomp169.htm| title =Gorakhpur Election Results since 1977 |publisher=Election Commission of India}} He was elected as Member of the Legislative Assembly four consecutive times in 1989, 1991, 1993 and 1996.

=Minister of state in the BJP government=

Shukla was appointed a state minister in Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led governments in Uttar Pradesh. He was appointed the cabinet Minister for Jails{{cite web|url=http://www.frontlineonnet.com/fl1423/14230040.htm |title=The Great Lucknow Circus |work=Frontline|volume=14|issue=23 VENKITESH RAMAKRISHNAN in Lucknow |date=15–28 November 1997 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071018040408/http://frontlineonnet.com/fl1423/14230040.htm |archivedate=18 October 2007 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.rediff.com/news/1998/dec/17babloo.htm |title =Jailed gangster's reach gobsmacks UP police |work=Rediff |date=17 December 1998}}{{cite web|url=http://www.rediff.co.in/news/1998/feb/23up.htm |title =BJP bandh stirs up trouble in UP towns |work=Rediff |date=23 February 1998}} in 1996–1998 under Bharatiya Janata Party–Bahujan Samaj Party a short-lived coalition government of Mayawati and Kalyan Singh and later on appointed Minister for Rural Development{{cite web|url=http://www.rediff.com/election/2002/feb/22_upr_swam_rep_1.htm |title =Neither Ram nor Rahim, Gorakhpur voters seek solution to problem of floods |work=Rediff|author=R Swaminathan |date=22 February 2002 }} in year 1998–2002 under BJP government of Rajnath Singh.