In Focus:Lok Jan Shakti Party

Suraj Singh

2009-02-21T00:23:00.000-08:00

Suraj Singh

Constituency :	Balia(Bihar )
Party Name :	Lok Jan Shakti Party(LJSP)

Father's Name

Late Shri Ramnandan Singh

Mother's Name

Smt. Kaushalya Devi

Date of Birth

03.05.1964

Place of Birth

Mokama, Distt. Patna (Bihar)

Marital Status

Married

Date of Marriage

01 Jun 1984

Spouse's Name

Smt.Veena Devi

No. of Sons

Educational Qualifications

Under Matric

profession

Political & Social Worker

Permanent Address

At & P.O. Mokama, Shankarwa Tola

Patna (Bihar)

(06243)240010

Present Address

12-A, Ferozeshah Road,

New Delhi-110 001

Tel. (011) 23321111, 23322222, 9868180464(M)

Position Held

2000-2004

Member, Bihar Legislative Assembly

Member, Committee on Housing, Bihar Legislative Assembly

Member, Committee on Rural Development, Bihar Legislative Assembly

2004	Elected to 14th Lok Sabha

Member, Committee on Industry (Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises)

Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas

Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Panchayati Raj

5 Aug. 2007 onwards

Member, Committee on Transport, Tourism & Culture

Special Interests

Service of the deprived and participation in social work

Favourite Pastime and Recreation

Music

Sports and Clubs

Cricket

Raneet Narayan

2009-02-21T00:04:00.001-08:00

Ranjeet Narayan during her first term as the member of parliament has impressed one and all. She seems to be very sincere and enterprising in her mission and has left a deep impression amongst her electorate .She has earned tremendous goodwill through her untiring effort and is one of those very few politicians who can demand votes from their electorate citing work done and initiatives taken under severe and very adverse circumstances.Why LJP is not projecting her in a big way is very baffling.

Constituency :	Saharsa(Bihar )
Party Name :	Lok Jan Shakti Party(LJSP)

Father's Name

Shri Ripdaman Singh Raina

Mother's Name

Smt. Narinder Kaur Raina

Date of Birth

07.01.1974

Place of Birth

Riva (Madhra Pradesh)

Marital Status

Married

Date of Marriage

06 Feb 1994

Spouse's Name

Shri Rajesh Ranjan

No. of Sons

No.of Daughters

Educational Qualifications

Intermediate

profession

Political & Social Worker

Permanent Address

Ranjan Niketan, Court Station,

Purnia (Bihar)

Tels. (06454) 227479, 227922

Present Address

1, B.R. Mehta Lane, K.G. Marg,

New Delhi - 110 001

Tels. (011) 23782617, 23782615, 9868180978 (M)

Position Held

Member, Committee on External Affairs

2004	Elected to 14th Lok Sabha

Member, Committee on Absence of Members from the Sittings of the House

5 Aug. 2007 onwards

Member, Standing Committee on Coal and Steel

Special Interests

Welfare activities for old people in villages of Bihar by opening helpage units

Favourite Pastime and Recreation

Viewing snow -covered peaks of Himalayas, and river rafting, para gliding and snow skatting

Sports and Clubs

Tennis and swimming

Ramchandra Paswan

2009-02-20T23:58:00.000-08:00

Ramchandra Paswan

Constituency :	Rosera-SC(Bihar )
Party Name :	Lok Jan Shakti Party(LJSP)
Email Address :	rcpaswan@sansad.nic.in

Father's Name

Late Shri Jamun Das

Mother's Name

Smt. Siya Devi

Date of Birth

01.01.1962

Place of Birth

Saharbanni, Distt. Khagaria (Bihar)

Marital Status

Married

Date of Marriage

12 Apr 1984

Spouse's Name

Smt. Sunaina Kumari

No. of Sons

No.of Daughters

Educational Qualifications

Matriculate

profession

Political & Social Worker

Permanent Address

Vidayadhar, Khagaria,

Distt. Khagaria - 851 2004 (Bihar)

Present Address

(i) 12 - D, Ferozeshah Road,

New Delhi - 110 001

Tels. (011) 23351030, 23316166, 9868180799 (M)

(ii) 14, Janpath,
New Delhi - 110 001

Position Held

1999	Elected to 13th Lok Sabha

1999-2000

Member, Committee on Urban and Rural Development

Member, Hindi Salahkar Samiti

2000 -2004

Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Mines and Minerals

2002-2004

Member, Committee on Commerce

2003-2004

Member, Committee on Absence of Members from the Sitting of the House

2004	Re-elected to 14th Lok Sabha( 2nd term)

Member, Committee on Commerce

Member, Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances, Law and Justice

5 August 2006

Member, Committee on Home Affairs

5 Aug. 2007 onwards

Member, Committee on Social Justice & Empowerment

--	Member,Parliamentary Forum on Water Conservation & Management

Member, Committee on Home Affairs

Ambition Of Ram Vilash Paswan

2009-02-20T23:33:00.000-08:00

Mr.Paswan consider himself no less influential then Mayawati and like her he too has expressed his ambition to become the prime minister of India.Mayawati is expected to win substantial seats of her own and left parties are convinced about that.She is being wooed by all major combination through back channel politicking.There is however no such optimism towards the fate of Ram Vilash Paswan.He has some followings but not substantial enough to catapult him to the stage where he can lay claim on the top job.READ MORE...

Ram Vilas Paswan

2008-05-26T00:30:00.000-07:00

Ram Vilas Paswan was elected to the Bihar State Assembly in 1969 as a member of die Samyutka Socialist Party. At the time he had considerable attraction to the Naxalite movement and no faith whatsoever in non-vio-lence.' In 1970 Paswan's confrontationist tactics led to his imprisonment for seven months in Bhagalpur Gaol (later infamous for the deliberate blinding of a number of prisoners). It was only with the advent of the 'JP Movement' that he came to accept the superiority of non-violence. Paswan became a close colleague of Jayaprakash in 1974, and he was of some importance m the movement by virtue of being both an MLA and also a Harijan (the term still used in Bihar). He was arrested at the begin-ning of the Emergency in 1975, and spent the whole of the Emergency in gaol. In the election of 1977 he won a reserved Parliamentary seat for the Janata Party, and with the exception of the period from 1984 tO 1989 has been a member of the Lok Sabha ever since. His party affiliation has changed with the many recompositions of the secular anti-Congress parties - he has variously been a member of the Janata Party, L.ok Dal and the Janata Dal. The three leaders he has acknowledged in this time are Charan Singh, Karpoori Thakur and V. P. Singh.
Ram Vilas Paswan had a tumultuous period as Minister for Labour and Welfare in the V. P. Singh Government of 1989-90. He says that this was the portfolio he wanted, because he could simultaneously do work for the Dalits and the Backward Castes (Interview: 27 October 1995). One of his accomplishments was implementation of the long-standing Dalit demand that Dr Ambedkar's portrait be placed in the main hall of Parliament alongside the other greats of the national struggle for Independence. He was also able to persuade the Government to extend reservation in employment to Scheduled Caste persons who had become Buddhists; rite primary beneficiary of this change is the Mahars.'7 But, of course, Paswan's most notorious action was to be intimately involved in the decision to adopt the Mandal Report that had lain on the table throughout the 1980s - it was commissioned by the previous Janata Government. This measure was of no value to the Scheduled Castes but of immense symbolic importance to the Backward Castes, particularly those of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. The backlash it created among the upper castes was a major factor in the disintegration of the Government.
Paswan's strategy in opposition remained essentially the same as it was in Government. His object was to be seen as the national leader of the Dalits, while simultaneously promoting himself as a strong leader of other out-groups - the Backwards and also the Muslims, from whom he claims to have particularly strong personal support. To augment his appeal to the Dalits he established a separate organisation called the Dalit Sena. Apparently this was established as early as 1983, but Paswan invested more energy in it after Congress lost its hold on the north Indian Untouchable vote. Of course, the key image placed alongside Paswan on the posters and promotional material of the Dalit Sena is that of Ambedkar. On the walls of the public rooms of his New Delhi residence there are now more likenesses of Ambedkar than of anyone else. But Paswan has come late to Antbedkar. The influences on him have mostly derived from the Lohia socialist movement and from Jayaprakash Narayan. But clearly Ambedkar has become the key symbol for building any all-India Dalit constituency. Paswan cannot afford to surrender any part of the Ambedkar legacy to his principal rival, Kanshi Ram.
There have always been formidable obstacles in front of Ram Vilas Paswan. His own power base is limited: he is the pre-eminent leader of the Paswans, the second Untouchable community (behind the Chamars) of one State, Bihar. For the rest, since clearly he wishes to be Prime Minister, he has to stake his claim to be the overall leader of the dis-advantaged. One practical obstacle is that his spoken English is sufficient only for limited private conversation, and he therefore has no real capac-ity to build a mass following outside the Hindi belt. And, of course, there are a number of other competitors for the same constituency of the dis-advantaged. Finally, there remain deep questions as to whether an Untouchable will be acceptable as Prime Minister of India.
Paswan's party, die Janata Dal, has done badly in electoral terms since its triumph in 1989. Its results in the 1996 poll were also poor, but events played into Paswan's hands. After the failure of the BJP to gain defections from other parties, Deve Gowda was able to cobble together an unlikely coalition of leftist, centrist and regional parties to form a Government in 1996. Deve Gowda installed his Janata Dal partyman Ram Vilas as his principal political lieutenant. Always energetic, as Minister for Railways Paswan rapidly turned this classic source of patronage into an instrument to promote die interests of Dalits. He claims, for example, that he has been able to regularise the position of thousands of temporary sweepers in the railways (Interview: 19 March 1997). When Congress brought down Gowda's Government at the end of March 1997, Paswan was one of the names mentioned as a possible replacement Prime Minister. But the position went to an establishment politician, the then Foreign Minister I.K. Gujral.
In terms of actual policy Ram Vilas does not stand for a program greatly different from that of any of the other parties putting up for the Scheduled Caste vote. Despite his inclination towards radicalism, he recognises that structural change will now be difficult to bring about in the short run. It is too late for radical land reform, and the reforms that are possible have to be conducted with due regard to the stance of the courts (Paswan interview: 1995). The major way ahead is to train Dalits so that they have marketable skills. He sees it as important to extend the principle of reservation to the developing private sector. Whatever his youthful origins, Paswan is now far from a social revolutionary. He is against the assertion of any animus against the upper castes - his second wife is an upper-caste Sikh - and Brahmins in particular. Rather, his overall goal is to work towards ensuring that Dalits and other out-groups get their fair share of social goods.

LJP:National Executives:

2008-05-26T00:26:00.001-07:00

Shri Ram Vilas Paswan:Hon’ble President, LJP12,Janpath,New DelhiPH-23017681, 23015249
Shri Suraj Bhan, MP:Vice President 12-A, Ferozshah Road New Delhi
Shri Ramchandra Paswan, MP:Vice President cum Chairman, LJP Campaign Committee 12-D, Ferozshah Road,New Delhi-1PH -23782555, 23782556
Dr. (Prof) Ranjan Yadav Ex. MP):National Vice President B-7/5022, Vasant Kunj New Delhi -110070Phone No :- 26897229, 26122099
National Presidents
Shri S. Swaminathan:Labour Cell Working President 201, Second Floor Gautam NagarNew Delhi-110049Ph :-9891143438 (M)
Shri M. Karuppiah Bharati:Labour Cell 3-B/Block-29, P&T Quarters,Type-II, Kalibari Marg,New Delhi-1
Smt. Latika Sharma:Women Cell Flat No.6060, Pocket C-6, Vasant Kunj,New Delhi
Kunwar Asim Khan:Youth Cell D-176, III Floor, Abul Fazal Enclave,Jamia Nagar, Okhla,New Delhi-25
Shri Afzal Abbas
Shri Afzal AbbasMinority Cell J-3/162, IIIrd Floor,Krishan Kunj,Laxmi Nagar,Delhi-92

Bio Data Of Ram Vilas Paswan

2008-05-26T00:19:00.000-07:00

Father’s Name:Late Shri Jamun Paswan
Mother’s Name:Smt. Siya Devi
Date of Birth:5 July 1946
Place of Birth:Shaharbanni, Distt. Khagaria (Bihar)
Marital Status:Married
Spouse’s Name:Smt. Reena Paswan
No. of Sons:1
No. of Daughters:3
Educational Qualifications:M.A., B.L. Educated at Kosi College, Khagaria and Patna University, Patna (Bihar)
Profession:Social Worker
Permanent Address:Vill. & P.O. Shaharbanni, Tola Bellai,Distt. Khagaria,- 851 204 (Bihar)
Present Address:12, Janpath,New Delhi - 110 001Tel. (011) 23017681, 23794310,23015249
Positions Held:1969 Member, Bihar Legislative Assembly
1970:Joint-Secretary, S.S.P., Bihar
1974:General-Secretary, Lok Dal, Bihar
1977:Elected to 6th Lok Sabha
1980:Re-elected to 7th Lok Sabha (2nd term)
1985-86:General-Secretary, Lok Dal
1987-88:General-Secretary, Janata Party
1988-90:Secretary, National Front;General-Secretary, Janata Dal
1989:Re-elected to 9th Lok Sabha (3rd term)
1989-90:Union Cabinet Minister, Labour and Welfare
1991:Re-elected to 10th Lok Sabha (4th term)Member, Business Advisory Committee
1993-96:Member, Committee on Home Affairs.
1996:Re-elected to 11th Lok Sabha (5th term)
Leader of the House, Lok Sabha (During the tenure of 11th Lok Sabha, both the Prime Ministers being the Members of Rajya Sabha, Shri Paswan was designated as Leader of the House (Lok Sabha) )Member, Business Advisory Committee
1996-98:Union Cabinet Minister, Railways
1998:Re-elected to 12th Lok Sabha (6th term)
Leader, Janata Dal Parliamentary Party
1998-99:Member, General Purposes Committee;Member, Committee on Railways;Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Home Affairs;
1999:Re-elected to 13th Lok Sabha (7th term)
13 Oct. 1999- 1 Sept. 2001:Union Cabinet Minister, Communications
1 Sept. 2001- 29 April 2002:Union Cabinet Minister, Coal and Mines
2004:Re-elected to 14th Lok Sabha( 8th term)
23 May 2004 - onwards:Union Cabinet Minister, Chemicals & Fertilizers; Steel
Constituency : Hajipur (SC) ( Bihar )
Party : Lok Jan Shakti Party (LJSP)
Sports and Clubs:Chess
Countries Visited:Widely travelled
Other Information:Member, Court, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 1998-99

Ram Vilash Paswan

2008-02-08T05:14:00.000-08:00

The Lok Jan Shakti Party is led by Ram Vilas Paswan. The party was formed in 2000 and has considerable following. In the 2005 Bihar assembly polls the party contested in alliance with the Congress and against the RJD and won 29 assembly seats.