Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi

Dr Murli Manohar Joshi

Murli Manohar Joshi [ born 5 January 1934 ] is an Indian politician and leading member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He was born in Nainital. Joshi had his early education in Chandpur, District Bijnore and Almora.[ Now in Uttarakhand ] He completed his B.Sc. from Meerut College and M.Sc. from Allahabad University.
 

He is the first person in India to publish a research paper in Physics in Hindi language. The Subject of his doctoral thesis was Spectroscopy.

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 26 June 1975 until the Lok Sabha elections in 1977. He was elected as 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.

 

He served as a president of Bharatiya Janata Party from 1991 to 1993. He later became Union Minister of Human Resource Development of Government of India in NDA regime. 

Joshi was a three-term M.P. from Allahabad before he was defeated in the Lok Sabha elections of May, 2004. He won election to the 15th Lok Sabha from Varanasi as a BJP candidate. He also served as the home minister for 13 days government in 1996.