Upendra Kushwaha
Upendra Kushwaha | |
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Rashtriya Samata Party | |
In office 2007 - 29 November 2009 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Upendra Kumar Singh Rashtriya Lok Samata Party (2013—2021)Bihar University |
As of 4 March, 2016 Source: My Neta |
Upendra Kumar Singh, commonly known as Upendra Kushwaha (born 6 February 1960)
Early life
Upendra Kumar Singh was born to Muneshwar Singh and Muneshwari Devi
Political career
Upendra Kushwaha entered politics in 1985; from then until 1988, he was State General Secretary of Yuva
Kushwaha became National General-Secretary of Yuva Janata Dal from 1988 to 1993. He also worked as General-Secretary for Samata Party from 1994 to 2002. Kushwaha was Member of Bihar Legislative Assembly in 2000–2005 and was appointed Deputy Leader of Bihar Legislative Assembly. In March 2004, after the Lok Sabha election, Sushil Modi was elected to the Lok Sabha and the number of MLA of JD(U) exceeded those of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Kushwaha, who was a one time MLA then, was made leader of the opposition in Bihar Legislative Assembly.[12][13][4]
Kushwaha started electoral politics in 2000, winning
On 4 January 2013, Upendra Kushwaha, who at the time was a Rajya Sabha member, resigned from Janata Dal (United), saying the Nitish model had failed and that the law-and-order situation was becoming as bad as it had been seven years before. He also said Nitish Kumar runs his government through autocratic means and that he had turned Janata Dal (United) into his "pocket organisation".[17]
Kushwaha founded
Kushwaha indicated his discontent with the NDA leadership due to diminishing importance as an ally. Kushwaha's RLSP left the NDA alliance because it was not given appropriate seats in the 2019 Lok Sabha election. The NDA leadership was sceptical of Kushwaha's influence on members of the
During the
kheer can be prepared with the milk from the Yadavs and rice from the Kushwahas ... [a] We will get the sugar from Brahmins, Tulsi from [RLSP Bihar chief Bhudev Choudhary], and can make delicious kheer with the dry-fruits from the backward classes and Dalits. Then we can relish the delicious kheer together.[27]
After losing in 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Kushwaha warned NDA leadership if the election results deteriorated, blood will flow on streets. Later in a notice from Election Commission of India, he said his intention was not the provoking of violence.[28]
In September 2020, prior to the
The GSDF suffered a serious setback: its only success was AIMIM winning five seats in Muslim-dominated areas of Bihar—particularly Simanchal—and BSP winning one seat. The allies had obtained fewer votes than Kushwaha's RLSP, which secured 1.77% of the vote, and failed to win any seats.[31] The RLSP polled well in a number of constituencies, including Dinara and Saffron.[32]
Kushwaha left Janata Dal (United) on two occasions but after the split of 2013, he lost much support and the Rashtriya Lok Samata Party suffered massive election defeats, most notably in the 2019 Lok Sabha election and the 2020 assembly election. The decline of support of the Kushwaha caste also resulted in setbacks for JD(U), which was reduced to 43 seats in the 2020 election to the Bihar Legislative Assembly. This led to RLSP being merged into its parent JD(U) and Kushwaha was made the party's parliamentary board president.[7] Soon after his induction into JD(U), Kushwaha was nominated to the Bihar Legislative Council, the upper house of the Bihar Legislature.[33]
Post-2022 anti-coalition politics
Kushwaha engaged in anti-coalition politics against the
Amidst speculation he would join the
Kushwaha's continuous attack on Nitish Kumar's decision to promote Tejashwi Yadav as his successor did not bring any action by the JDU leadership but the party's national president
Attack on convoy and formation of new party
Amidst a political crisis in the state, in which Kushwaha was important factor, Kushawa's convoy of vehicles was attacked during a visit to Bhojpur. The attackers belonged to an organisation called "Kushvanshi Sena" and had ideological conflict with Kushwaha. The Sena members said they showed black flags to the convoy and Kushwaha's supporters and political activists assaulted them.[45][46]
Kushwaha resigned from JDU and announced the formation of a new party called
Virasat Bachao Yatra
Soon after formation of Rashtriya Lok Janata Dal, Kushwaha announced the launch of "Virasat Bachao Yatra", a statewide tour that included important places in Bihar and connecting with ground-level political workers to gain support against the Nitish Kumar government. The yatra, in its first phase, started from Bhitiharwa Village of
Alliance for 2024 Indian General Elections
Before 2024 Indian General Elections (Lok Sabha elections), there was a buzz over whether Kushwaha's RLJD would become a part of National Democratic Alliance led by Bharatiya Janata Party or not. According to some of the senior Bharatiya Janata Party leaders, the BJP was not solely dependent on Kushwaha to gain support among the members of numerically strong caste group of Bihar, to which latter belonged. It had raised
In 2024 seat distribution of National Democratic Alliance, Rashtriya Lok Morcha (earlier known as Rashtriya Lok Janata Dal) was given one parliamentary constituency to contest. It was stipulated in media that Kushwaha wanted more seats and thus he was pacified by the BJP leadership with one seat in Bihar Legislative Council.[52]
Relationship with Nitish Kumar
In his early political career, Kushwaha was a favourite of Nitish Kumar, who invested a lot in him and made him leader of opposition in
Kushwaha's RLSP fought the 2014 Lok Sabha election in alliance with the BJP and won the three seats it was allotted. In reward, he was made Union Minister in Narendra Modi's first cabinet. When Nitish Kumar, who contested the 2014 Lok Sabha election alone without being part of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA), returned to the NDA, Kushwaha was overlooked by NDA leadership as they focused more on Nitish. Despite performing poorly in the 2019 Lok Sabha and 2020 Bihar Assembly elections, in the latter of which Kushwaha formed his GDSF, Kumar invited Kushwaha to merge his RLSP into JDU. This was done because JDU observed a shifting away of voters away from Kushwaha's caste, and in more than 12 seats in some parts of Bihar, RSLP candidates led a defeat of JDU candidates.[54]
In 2021, Kushwaha merged his RLSP into JDU and Kumar appointed him Parliamentary Board chairman. Kushwaha, however, later said Kumar was not giving him appropriate time to discuss party affairs. He also said the party was weakening from the inside.[55] Earlier, when Kushwaha was JDU's parliamentary board chairman, he consistently defended Kumar from attack by opposition leaders. Kushwaha reacted sharply to the statement of Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Shivanand Tiwari, who said Nitish Kumar once told him he wanted to open an Ashram and teach political workers, an indication of Kumar's retirement from politics. Kushwaha defended Kumar and in media briefing, he said Nitish should work more and the nation still wanted his service.[56]
After Kushwaha's tussle with JDU's leadership became public in 2023, and a picture of some BJP leaders meeting him in hospital was aired, rumours of him leaving the JDU reappeared. When asked about Kushwaha's possible defection from JDU, due to his closeness with the BJP, Nitish Kumar told media "they should ask Kushwaha, what he wants" and"tell [Kushwaha] to talk to me."[57][58]
Ideology
On Reservation
In 2016, while he was serving as Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Kushwaha expressed his views on reservation in the private sector for
In 2022, when he was serving as the Parliamentary Board president of Janata Dal (United), Kushwaha accused the
On Farm Bills
Kushwaha's
On liquor ban
In 2016, the Government of Bihar under Nitish Kumar passed a bill in the Bihar Legislative Assembly to ban the consumption of alcohol in the state. Severe punishment were imposed on those found guilty. In 2022, Kushwaha in a press statement spoke against the state government's liquor policy. He was opposed to the way the ban was being implemented. Kushwaha accused government officials of colluding with alcohol suppliers and asked the people to volunteer to make the prohibition successful.[64][65][66]
Caste census
Kushwaha was an ardent supporter of the project of Bihar government for enumeration of population of various caste groups residing within the state.[67] It was an ambitious project and first such large scale exercise to know the strength of individual castes after 1931. However after the results of the caste survey were published on 2 October 2023, he was among the leaders to term it as fake and manipulated survey. The survey lowered the strength of many caste groups which were considered more preponderant in the state. Soon after the results, he commented that the data were collected in haste and also alleged that even his own family was not counted and no one from the side of government came to his house to ask about his caste. Kushwaha also termed the report to be half baked as the data of only population was published on 2 October. He demanded that the socio-economic profile of various castes should also be kept in public domain as it will help government to formulate policies to uplift them.[68]
Tenure as Minister of State (MoS) for Education
Protest against collegium system
While serving as Minister of State (Human resource development), now called
To support the
Movement for educational reforms
According to Kushwaha, the Rashtriya Janata Dal's (RJD) 15-year rule in Bihar is responsible for the poor conditions of educational institutions. In a convention organised by his RLSP party in Rajgir during his tenure as Union Minister, he put many demands before the Nitish Kumar government to rectify the state's education system. The demands were aimed at the development of lower as well as higher educational institutions.[74]
Kushwaha has demanded quality education in Indian villages. According to him, 90% of those who are in need of education live in villages, where there has been severe degradation in quality of government schools. He also lauded the Central Board of Secondary Education for maintaining a decent quality of education across the country.[75][76]
In 2016, Kushwaha inaugurated the new infrastructure and building for the All India Council for Technical Education. At the inauguration meeting, he expressed concern over engineers being paid a minimum salary of ₹10,000 to ₹12,000 in the country after graduating from private technical institutions. He urged the creation of a system in which the companies would visit campuses to select meritorious engineers.[77]
In 2019, RLSP party workers, under leadership of Kushwaha and other senior leaders, conducted a march towards
Gallery
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Upendra Kushwaha and Prakash Javadekar releasing the publication, at the presentation ceremony of the National level Swachh Vidyalaya Puraskar, 2016–17 to the 172 selected Government Schools in the country, in New Delhi.
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Pravind Kumar Jugnauthand Mrs. Kobita Ramdanee-Jugnauth being received by the Minister of State for Human Resource Development, Shri Upendra Kushwaha, on their arrival at IGI Airport, in New Delhi.jpg
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Ram Vilas Paswan and the Minister of State for Human Resource Development, Shri Upendra Kushwaha perform Yoga, on the occasion of the 4th International Day of Yoga 2018, in Hajipur, Bihar.
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Minister of State for Human Resource Development, Shri Upendra Kushwaha addressing at the inauguration of theNavodaya National Integration Meetand Award Function 2016–17, in New Delhi on 17 January 2017.
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The Minister of State for Human Resource Development, Shri Upendra Kushwaha visiting an exhibition, at the 56thNCERTfoundation day celebrations, in New Delhi on 1 September 2016.
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The Minister of State for Human Resource Development, Shri Upendra Kushwaha visiting after inaugurating the KVS Rashtriya Ekta Shivir-2017, Ek Bharat-Shreshth Bharat, in New Delhi on 31 October 2017.
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The Minister of State for Human Resource Development, Shri Upendra Kushwaha addressing at the inauguration of the KVS Rashtriya Ekta Shivir-2017, Ek Bharat-Shreshth Bharat, in New Delhi on 31 October 2017.
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The Minister of State for Human Resource Development, Shri Upendra Kushwaha addressing at the 56thNCERTfoundation day celebrations, in New Delhi on 1 September 2016.
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The Union Minister of state for Human Resource Development, Shri Upendra Kushwaha presented the National level Swachh Vidyalaya Puraskar, 2016–17 to the 172 selected Government Schools in the country, at a function, in New Delhi.
See also
Footnotes
- ^ Original: "Yaduvanshiyon ka dudh aur Kushwansiyon ka chawal mil jaye to kheer ban sakti hai"
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Further reading
- "Jitan Ram Manjhi emerges critical player in poll-bound Bihar". The Times of India. 27 May 2015.