Raghunath Jha

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Raghunath Jha
Member of Parliament (MP) in Lok Sabha
In office
2004–2009
Preceded byMadan Prasad Jaiswal
Succeeded byconstituency abolished
ConstituencyBettiah
In office
1999–2004
Preceded byAbdul Ghafoor
Succeeded bySadhu Yadav
ConstituencyGopalganj
Personal details
Born(1939-08-09)9 August 1939
British India
Died15 January 2018(2018-01-15) (aged 78)
Delhi, India
Political partyRashtriya Janata DalSamata Party led by Uday Mandal[1]
Source: [1]

Raghunath Jha (9 August 1939 – 15 January 2018) was an Indian politician who was Union minister of State for Heavy Industries and Public Enterprise and member of the

Gopalganj
and Bettiah respectively.

Political career

Jha remained a member of Socialist Party before switching to the Congress in 1972 and successfully contesting the assembly elections from Sheohar.[citation needed]

He represented the constituency in 1972, 1977 and 1980 on the Congress ticket and became a minister in the

Raj Bhavan in 1985 in support of the latter's candidature for the post of chief minister and ouster of the then chief minister Bhagwat Jha Azad, Jha was denied re-nomination from Sheohar for "disobeying" the Congress leadership. Jha then resigned from the Congress' primary membership and secured a Janata Party ticket when Shekhar was its president. Rajiv Gandhi came to campaign against Jha in Sheohar but the latter won the elections to the Sheohar assembly seat for the fourth time.[citation needed
]

After the merger of former prime minister V P Singh's

Lok Dal of former deputy prime minister Devi Lal in Bangalore in 1988, Jha became the state president of Janata Dal in Bihar.[citation needed] But his relations with Singh were not going well and he was removed from the post within three months. A few months after his removal, Jha was made chairman of the party's parliamentary board in Bihar following Shekhar's intervention.[citation needed
]

In the late 1980s, some of the remnants of Janata Party had come together to form

VP Singh. Yadav had campaigned heavily in favour of implementing Mandal Commission, which sought to reserve government jobs for backward castes in Central Government jobs. Das was less keen on this. Nitish Kumar rallied backward caste MLAs towards Yadav. In the election, Yadav won narrowly over Das by a vote of 59 to 56. Jha won 12, mostly upper caste MLAs.[2]

On 3 September 2015, Jha left the RJD joined the Samajwadi Party, becoming the latter's first MLA in Bihar.[3] He also accused Prasad of ignoring senior leaders in a bid to promote his family members in the party.[4]

He died on 15 January 2018 at

Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital in Delhi.[5]

References

  1. ^ https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/flaming-torch-symbol-ec-delhi-hc-dismisses-samata-partys-appeal-8278007/
  2. ISBN 9789352805860
    .
  3. ^ "Senior leader Raghunath Jha quits RJD, to join SP | India News - Times of India".
  4. ^ "Raghunath Jha quits RJD, to join SP". The Hindu. 3 September 2015.
  5. ^ "Former Union minister Raghunath Jha passes away". Times of India.
Lok Sabha
Preceded by Member of Parliament
for
Bettiah

2004 – 2009 		Succeeded by
Constituency ceased to exist

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