Party Name : Bharatiya Janata Party
Constituency : Nawada
State : Bihar
Member Experience : Elected to Loksabha 1 time
Last Loksabha Attended : 13
Father's Name : Shri Mahavir Ram
Mother's Name : Smt. Krishna Devi
Date of birth : 02 May 1962
Profession : Teacher Educationist, Trade Unionist
Positions held :
Former General Secretary Bihar; National Secretary and Incharge (Orissa), BJP1999 Elected to 13th Lok Sabha1999 onwards Member, Committee on Finance; Member, House Committee;Member, Consultative Committee Labour, Social Justice & Empowerment; Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Information Technology; Member, Parliamentary Network on World Bank1 July 2002 - 28 Jan. 2003 Union Minister of State, Ministry of Communications & Information Technology29 Jan. 2003- 23 May 2003 Union Minister of State, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment24 May 2003- onwards Union Minister of State, Ministry of Human Resource Development
More Information :
Books Published
(i) Biography of former Chief Minister of Bihar, Shri Bhola Paswan Shastri; (ii) The Problems of Scheduled Castes of Bihar; (iii) The Roots of Rural Violence (iv) Encyclopaedia of Dalits in India (in eleven vols.) and (v) The Social face of Indian Parliament (In Press).
Literary, Artistic & Scientific Accomplishments
Editor-in-Chief of Periodical, Vanchit Vani (Monthly), Organiser of various National & International Seminars, Symposia, Workshops, etc.
Special Interests
Studying and growing herbal plants, listening to folk lores, folk stories and folk songs and spiritual discourse
Sports and Clubs
Volleyball, Lawn Tennis, Swimming, Rifle Club, Constitution Club, etc.
Other Information
Started politics with radical leftist forces and later joined B.J.P. in 1986; a professor and an expert in labour-related matters, industrial relations and rural welfare; Life Member, (i) Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi; (ii) Indian Society of Labour Economics, New Delhi; (iii) National Productivity Council; (iv) National Institute of Personnel Management, Calcutta; (v) Indian Red Cross Society; and (vi) Youth Hostel Association of India; Founder of N.G.O.s like “IJOT” and “LOKESHNA”; Member, Mineral Advisory Council; (vii) Member, National Railway Users’ Consultative Committee; (viii) Founder Chairman of "VANCHIT PRATISHTHAN" (N.G.O.); (ix) Life Member of ISCKON and other reputed Institutions.
