Murli Manohar Joshi

Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi
Born	January 5, 1934 (1934-01-05) (age 75) New Delhi, India
Political party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Religion	Hindu

Murli Manohar Joshi was the Union Human Resources Development minister of India in the NDA government. Joshi is a leading member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He is best known for his views on Indian socio-politics and for his affiliation with the RSS.

He was born in Delhi on January 5 1934, hailing from the Kumaon Hills region of northern India which today form a part of the state of Uttarakhand. Joshi had his early education in Chandpur, District Bijnore and Almora (currently part of Uttarakhand). He completed his B.Sc. from Meerut College and M.Sc. from Allahabad University. Here one of his teachers was Professor Rajendra Singh, who later became RSS Sarsanghchalaks. He did his doctorate from Allahabad University. The subject of his doctoral thesis was Spectroscopy. He was the first scientist to submit his thesis in Hindi.

After completing his PhD, Joshi started teaching Physics at Allahabad University. He 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, demanding halving of land revenue assessment. During the Emergency period (1975-1977) in India, Joshi was in jail from June 26, 1975 until the Lok Sabha elections in 1977. He was elected Member of Parliament from Almora. When the Janata 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 the Bharatiya 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 under Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Joshi served as the Human Resource Development Minister in the cabinet.

Joshi is known to have been influenced by the life and work of right-wing intellectualVeer Savarkar, Shri Guruji and Deendayal Upadhyaya. Joshi was defeated from the seat he had held all along; namely Allahabad, in the Lok Sabha elections of May, 2004.

He also served as the home minister for 13 days government in 1996. He has won elections for the nationa parliamentary seat from the Varanasi lok sabha constituency for BJP in May 2009.^[1]

Dr.Joshi was appointed as Chairman of the Manifesto Preparation Board of the BJP in 2009.

Positions Held

• 1944 Member, Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (R.S.S.)
• 1949 Member, Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarathi Parishad (A.B.V.P.)
• 1953-56 General Secretary, A.B.V.P., Uttar Pradesh; All India General Secretary, A.B.V.P.
• 1957 Organising Secretary, Bharatiya Jana Sangh (B.J.S.), Allahabad
• 1959-67 Zonal Organising Secretary, B.J.S., Uttar Pradesh
• 1967-75 Secretary, B.J.S., Uttar Pradesh; Treasurer, B.J.S., Uttar Pradesh; Vice-President, B.J.S., Uttar Pradesh (prior to its merger in Janata Party)
• 1977 Elected to 6th Lok Sabha
• 1977-79 General-Secretary, Janata Party in Parliament
• 1980 Founder General Secretary, B.J.P.
• 1981-83 Treasurer, B.J.P.
• 1986-90 General-Secretary, B.J.P.
• 1991-93 President, B.J.P.
• 1992 Member, Rajya Sabha
• 1992-96 Member, Committee on Science and Technology, Environment and Forests; Member, Committee on Public Undertakings; Member, Select Committee on Patent Law; Member, Select Committee on Trade Marks Bill
• 1996 Re-elected to 11th Lok Sabha (2nd term)
• 16 May–1 June 1996 Union Cabinet Minister, Home Affairs
• 1996-97 Chairman, Public Accounts Committee; Member, Committee on Finance; Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Defence; Member, Expert Committee on Low Productivity Areas, Ministry of Agriculture and Co-operation
• 1998 Re-elected to 12th Lok Sabha (3rd term)
• 1998-99 Union Cabinet Minister, Human Resource Development; and Science and Technology
• 1999 Re-elected to 13th Lok Sabha (4th term)
• Oct.-Nov. 1999 Union Cabinet Minister, Human Resource Development and Science & Technology
• 22 Nov. 1999 - 2004 Union Cabinet Minister, Human Resource Development; Science & Technology and Department of Ocean Development
• 2009 Elected to 15th Lok Sabha from Varanasi, UP

References

• Police arrest right-wing Hindu leaders. TIM MCGIRK, The Independent. 9 December 1992.
• Court clears India's deputy PM. Maseeh Rahman, The Guardian, Saturday 20 September 2003.
• Minister wins Ayodhya reprieve. BBC. 20 September 2003.
• Tearing down the Babri Masjid. Mark Tully, BBC. 5 December 2002.
• Indian dismay over UN ranking. Satish Jacob , BBC. 24 July, 2002.
• India targets cow slaughter. Jyotsna Singh, BBC 11 August 2003.
• Sustainable consumption is the need of the hour, says Murli Manohar Joshi. The Hindu. 15 January 2007.
• Sex education runs into trouble. BBC. 27 August 2007.
• Murli Manohar Joshi attacks Congress on N-deal, agrarian policies. Times of India. 6 March 2008
• Yoga institute celebrations. The Hindu. 19 February 2009.
• Joshi gets death threat from Indian Mujahideen. India Express. 12 April 2009.
• I won’t mind being Leader of Opposition: Murli Manohar Joshi. ANI. May 17, 2009.
• BJP probably failed to communicate its message: Joshi. The Hindu. 16 May 2009.
• Advani's decision in BJP's interest: Murli Manohar Joshi. The Economic Times. 17 May 2009

External links

• http://www.drmurlimanoharjoshi.in/ Official Website of Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi
• http://drmurlimjoshi.blogspot.com/ Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi's blog
• BJP profile of M.M. Joshi