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Ram Vilas Paswan
MP Rajya sabha
In office
1
Succeeded byRam Sundar Das
ConstituencyBIHAR
Personal details
Born (1946-07-05) 5 July 1946 (age 78)
Khagaria, Bihar
Political partyLJP
Spouse(s)Reena Paswan, Raj Kumari
ChildrenChirag Paswan (son) and 3 daughters
ResidenceKhagaria
As of September 14, 2009
Source: [1]

Ram Vilas Paswan (born 5 July 1946) is the president of the Lok Janshakti Party and a Rajya Sabha MP.

Early Life

Ram Vilas Paswan is Dusadh[1][2][3](Dalit) not belongs to "Pasi"(caste).

Political career

Paswan was elected to the Bihar state legislative assembly in 1969 as a member of the Samyukta Socialist Party ("United Socialist Party") from a reserved constituency. In 1974, as an ardent follower of Raj Narayan and Jayaprakash Narayan Paswan became the general secretary of the Lok Dal. He was personally close to the prominent leaders of anti-emergency like Raj Narayan, Karpoori Thakur and Satyendra Narayan Sinha.

In 1975, when emergency was proclaimed in India, he was arrested and spent the entire period in jail.

In 1977, when released, he became a member of the Janata Party[4] and won election to Parliament for the first time on its ticket. He was re-elected to the 7th Lok Sabha in 1980 and 1984 from Hajipur constituency

In 1983, he established the Dalit Sena, an organization for Dalit emancipation and welfare.

Paswan was re-elected to the 9th Lok Sabha in 1989 and was appointed Union Minister of Labour and Welfare in the Vishwanath Pratap Singh government.

In 1996 he even led the ruling alliance or Proposition in the Lok Sabha as the Prime Ministers were members of the Rajya Sabha.

This was also the year when he first became the Union Railway Minister. He continued to hold that post till 1998. Thereafter, he was the Union Communications Minister from October 1999 to September 2001 when he was shifted to the Coal Ministry, which portfolio he held till April 2002.

In 2000 Paswan broke from the Janata Dal (United), to form the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP). Following the 2004 Lok Sabha elections, Paswan joined the United Progressive Alliance government and was made the Union Minister in Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers and Ministry of Steel.

In the February 2005 Bihar State elections, Paswan's party LJP along with the Indian National Congress contested the election. The result was that no particular party or alliance could form a government by itself.

However, Paswan consistently refused to support either Laloo Yadav, whom he accused of being extremely corrupt, or the right-wing National Democratic Alliance thereby creating a stalemate.

This stalemate was broken when Nitish Kumar succeeded in persuading 12 members of Paswan's party to defect; to prevent the formation of a right-wing government supported by LJP defectors, the Governor of Bihar, Buta Singh dissolved the state legislature and called for fresh elections, keeping Bihar under President's Rule.

In the November 2005 Bihar state elections, Paswan's third-alliance was utterly devastated; the Laloo Yadav-Congress alliance reduced to a minority and the NDA formed the new government.

Paswan has declared that the Bihar state elections have no influence on the Central Government, which will continue with both him and Laloo Yadav as ministers.

Paswan has served as a Union Minster under five different Prime Ministers and holds the distinction of continuously holding on to a cabinet berth in all the Council of Ministers formed since 1996 (as of 2009). He also holds the distinction of being part of all the national coalitions (the United Front, the National Democratic Alliance and the United Progressive Alliance), which have formed the Indian Government from 1996 to 2009.[5]

For the Indian general election, 2009 Paswan forged an alliance with Lalu Prasad Yadav and his Rashtriya Janata Dal, while dumping their erstwhile coalition partner and leader of the United Progressive Alliance, the Indian National Congress from the new alliance. The duo was later joined by Mulayam Singh's Samajwadi Party and were declared the Fourth Front. He lost the elections from Hajipur to the Janata Dal (United)'s Ram Sundar Das, a former Chief Minister of Bihar for the first time in 33 years. His party the Lok Janshakti Party was not able to win any seats in the 15th Lok Sabha, while his coalition partner Yadav and his party too failed to perform well and were reduced to 4 seats.

Personal life

Paswan spent his early years in Shaharbanni village in Khagaria district of Bihar. He was born to a scheduled-caste Dusadh, Dalit family.

He is married to Reena Sharma-Paswan, an upper-caste Punjabi Brahmin from Amritsar, and they have a son and a daughter. He has two daughters from his first wife Raj Kumari. His son, Chirag Paswan is going to make his Bollywood film debut very soon. In an interview with NDTV, Paswan displayed confidence in the success of his son, he stated "Everybody wants to be the greatest man, but everybody also want that his son should be go on the higher place, and I have full confidence in Chirag that he will do whatever he will do he will be one of the best place".[6]

After BA and before completing his LL B, Paswan qualified at the provincial civil service(BPSC) exam and was selected as Dy.S.P.in the reserved quota for the Scheduled Castes(SC). But before joining the police training, he had already come into contact with some socialists and had worked in the vicinity, moving on cycle. He got the ticket from Lohia's Samyukta Socialist Party(SSP) and won the 1969 Assembly elections from a constituency reserved for SCs.

References

  1. ^ http://neelamshukla.blogspot.com/2010/02/blog-post_23.html
  2. ^ http://in.jagran.yahoo.com/news/local/bihar/4_4_6307105.html
  3. ^ http://www.raftaar.in/Footer.aspx?URL=19214673&UID=f5856df0-38f7-4f76-9dde-e4a1fd9b5330&db=raftaarnews_1002&search=%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B8+%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A8+%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BF+%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A7&Murl=http://www.bhaskar.com/article/nat-bihar-assembly-election-2010-1588684.html?hf=
  4. ^ "Total Revolution". archive. Retrieved 2006-12-02.
  5. ^ "Details of Member : Shri Ram Vilas Paswan". archive. Retrieved 2009-02-12.
  6. ^ "Paswan's son to rock Bollywood". Youtube. Retrieved 2010-05-09.

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