Murli Manohar Joshi | |
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| Minister of Human Resource Development | |
| In office 19 March 1998 – 22 May 2004 | |
| Prime Minister | Atal Bihari Vajpayee |
| Preceded by | S. R. Bommai |
| Succeeded by | Arjun Singh |
| Union Minister of Home Affairs | |
| In office 16 May 1996 – 1 June 1996 | |
| Prime Minister | Atal Bihari Vajpayee |
| Preceded by | Shankarrao Chavan |
| Succeeded by | H. D. Deve Gowda |
| Union Minister of Science and Technology | |
| In office 19 March 1998 – 21 May 2004 | |
| Prime Minister | Atal Bihari Vajpayee |
| Succeeded by | Kapil Sibal |
| Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha | |
| In office 16 May 2014 – 23 May 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Sriprakash Jaiswal |
| Succeeded by | Satyadev Pachauri |
| Constituency | Kanpur,Uttar Pradesh |
| In office 16 May 2009 – 16 May 2014 | |
| Preceded by | Rajesh Kumar Mishra |
| Succeeded by | Narendra Modi |
| Constituency | Varanasi,Uttar Pradesh |
| In office 1996—2004 | |
| Preceded by | Saroj Dubey |
| Succeeded by | Rewati Raman Singh |
| Constituency | Allahabad,Uttar Pradesh[1] |
| In office 1977–1980 | |
| Preceded by | Narendra Singh Bisht |
| Succeeded by | Harish Rawat |
| Constituency | Almora,Uttarakhand |
| Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha | |
| In office 5 July 1992 – 11 May 1996 | |
| Constituency | Uttar Pradesh |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1934-01-05)5 January 1934 (age 91) |
| Political party | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| Other political affiliations | Janata Party[2] |
| Spouse | Tarla Joshi |
| Education | BSc,MSc,PhD |
| Alma mater | University of Allahabad |
| Awards | Padma Vibhushan (2017) |
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Murli Manohar Joshi (born 5 January 1934) is an Indian politician. He is one of the founding members of theBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and served as its President from 1991 to 1993. In addition to his role in the BJP, he has been a lifelong member of theRashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), afar-rightHindu nationalist organisation. Joshi is the formerMember of Parliament fromKanpurLok Sabha constituency.[3] He is a former professor of physics inUniversity of Allahabad. He is one of the senior most leaders of the BJP and one of the founding members. Joshi later became the UnionHuman Resources & Development Minister in theNational Democratic Alliance government.[4] Joshi was awardedPadma Vibhushan, the second-highest civilian award, in 2017 by theGovernment of India.[5]
Joshi was born inDelhi on 5 January 1934. His family hails fromAlmora inKumaon region, which is now part of theUttarakhand state. His father's name was Manmohan Joshi. In 1966, Joshi was married to Tarla Joshi, a lady of his own community and similar family background, in a match arranged by their families in the usual Indian way. The lifelong marriage has proven entirely harmonious and conventional. The couple are the parents of two daughters, Nivedita and Priyamvada.[6][7]
Joshi had his early education inChandpur,district Bijnor and inAlmora, from where his family hails. He completed his B.Sc. fromMeerut College and M.Sc. fromAllahabad University. In Allahabad, one of his teachers wasProfessor Rajendra Singh, who later became theSarsanghchalak of theRashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.
Joshi did his doctorate in physics atAllahabad University. The subject of his doctoral thesis wasspectroscopy. He published a research paper in Physics inHindi, which was a first of its kind.[8] After completing his PhD, Joshi started teaching physics atAllahabad University.[9]
Joshi came in contact with the RSS in Delhi at a young age and took part in the Cow Protection Movement in 1953–54, in the Kumbh Kisan Andolan of UP in 1955,[10] demanding halving of land revenue assessment. During theEmergency period (1975–1977) in India, Joshi was in jail from 26 June 1975 until theLok Sabha elections in 1977. He was elected Member of Parliament fromAlmora. When theJanata Party (which then included his party) came to power forming the first non-Congress government in Indian history, Joshi was elected General Secretary of the Janata Parliamentary Party. After the fall of the government, his party came out of Janata Party in 1980, and formed theBharatiya Janata Party or the BJP. Joshi first looked after the Central Office as a General Secretary and later became Party Treasurer. As General Secretary of BJP, he was directly in charge of Bihar, Bengal and North-Eastern States. Later, when BJP formed a government in India underAtal Bihari Vajpayee, Joshi served as the Human Resource Development Minister in the cabinet.
In December 1991, Joshi held ayatra, theEktaYatra, intended to signal that BJP supported national unity and opposedseparatist movements. It began on 11 December inKanyakumari,Tamil Nadu and visited 14 states.[11] The rally's final stop to hoist theIndian flag in Jammu and Kashmir on 26 January 1992 was considered unsuccessful, with minimal local participation.[12]
Joshi is known to have been influenced by the life and work ofBabasaheb Ambedkar,Mahatma Jyotiba Phule andDeendayal Upadhyaya. Joshi was a three-term M.P. fromAllahabad before he was defeated in the Lok Sabha elections of May 2004. He won election to the 15th Lok Sabha fromVaranasi as a BJP candidate.[13]He also served as the home minister for 13 days government in 1996.Joshi was appointed as Chairman of the Manifesto Preparation Board of the BJP in 2009. He was honoured as "Proud Past Alumni" of Allahabad University by Allahabad University Alumni Association.[14][15]
He was a sitting MP fromVaranasi and he vacated that seat for Narendra Modi in 2014 Lok Sabha Elections. He later contested fromKanpur and won from the constituency by a margin of 2.23 lac votes.[16]
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