Murli Manohar Joshi

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Murli Manohar Joshi

Murli Manohar Joshi ( Hindi मुरली मनोहर जोशी , born January 5, 1934 in Delhi , then British India , now India ) is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

biography

Murli Manohar Joshi was born on January 5, 1934 in Delhi into a north Indian Hindu family. He received his first education at the Hindu High School in Chandpur . He then attended Meerut College and then Allahabad University , where he studied physics and obtained an M.Sc. and a doctorate ( D. Phil. ). His doctoral thesis dealt with a topic in the field of spectroscopy . In the following decades, despite his political activities, he continued to work at the university in a teaching and administrative role.

In 1944, at the age of 10, Joshi joined the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the Hindu nationalist "national volunteer corps", and in 1949 became a member of the student organization of the RSS Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), of which he was general secretary from 1953 to 1956 . Joshi became a member of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS), the predecessor party of today's Bharatiya Janata Party, and was active in the party in various functions in the state of Uttar Pradesh .

In 1977 the BJS merged with other parties to form the Janata Party (JNP) and Joshi was elected to the Lok Sabha in the 1977 parliamentary elections as Janata deputy in the constituency 3-Almora in Uttar Pradesh, where he served as general secretary of the JNP from 1977-79. After the Janata Party broke up into various factions, Joshi was one of the co-founders of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 1980. From 1981–83 Joshi served as treasurer of the BJP, 1986–90 as its general secretary and from 1991 to 1993 as BJP party president. From 1992 to 1996 he was an elected member for the BJP in the Rajya Sabha , the “house of states ” of the Indian parliament. In 1980 and 1984 he ran in vain in various constituencies for the Lok Sabha and was re-elected in the 1996 election in the constituency of 56-Allahabad (Uttar Pradesh). He was able to maintain the constituency in the 1998 and 1999 elections , but then lost it in 2004 to a candidate from the Samajwadi Party . In the 2009 and 2014 elections, he won constituency 455-Varanasi and 464-Kanpur, respectively .

In the first cabinet of Atal Bihari Vajpayee in 1996, which, however, only 13 days officiated and he had then resigned mainly because of lack of parliamentary majority the post of interior minister held. Joshi was not entirely uninvolved at the early end of the government because he resigned after he and 6 other BJP officials (including Lal Krishna Advani ) were charged with involvement in the destruction of the Babri Mosque in Ayodhya in 1992 (during his tenure as party president ) had been announced.

In the second and third Vajpayee Cabinet from 1998-2004 he was Minister for Human Resources, Science and Technology. His administration was not without controversy. His critics accused him of “saffronizing” the educational system ( saffron orange is the party color of the BJP) by redefining the teaching content in schools in a supposedly Hindu nationalistic sense. After an Indian special court brought charges against him and six other people in the Ayodhya dispute, Joshi offered to resign from the ministerial office on September 19, 2003. However, this was not accepted by Prime Minister Vajpayee, so that he remained in office. In 2010 the Allahabad High Court ordered the case to be closed. However, there were several attempts to reopen the process in the period that followed. On April 19, 2017, the Supreme Court of India ordered the retrial against, among others, Joshi.

On March 30, 2017 Joshi was awarded the Padma Vibhushan , the second highest civilian award in India.

Joshi's marriage to Tarla Joshi in 1966 resulted in two daughters, Priyamvada and Nivedita. Murli Manohar Joshi is the author of more than 100 scientific publications and the author of several political and ideological books.

Web links

Commons : Murli Manohar Joshi  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Detailed Profile: Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi. Lok Sabha (archive), accessed on November 12, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b Election Results - Full Statistical Reports. Indian Election Commission, accessed November 12, 2016 .
  3. ↑ a b M M Joshi: Dr No. rediff.com, May 4, 2004, accessed November 12, 2016 .
  4. ↑ BJP Presidents: Dr. MM Joshi 1991 to 1992. Bharatiya Janata Party, accessed November 12, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Tara Shankar Sahay: Oppn sees red on saffronisation of education. rediff.com, August 16, 2001, accessed November 12, 2016 .
  6. ^ Ayodhya case: Nothing against Advani, but MM Joshi will face charges. rediff.com, September 19, 2003, accessed November 12, 2016 .
  7. ^ Murli Manohar Joshi resumes work. rediff.com, October 1, 2003, accessed November 12, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Krishnada's Rajagopal: Babri Masjid case Supreme Court notice puts Advani, top BJP leaders in a fix. The Hindu, April 1, 2015, accessed November 12, 2016 .
  9. ^ Krishnadas Rajagopal: Babri case: SC revives criminal conspiracy charges against Advani, others. The Hindu, April 19, 2017, accessed April 19, 2017 .
  10. ^ Virat Kohli, Murli Manohar Joshi, Sharad Pawar given Padma awards. scroll.in, March 24, 2018, accessed on March 24, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Detailed Profile: Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi. (No longer available online.) Lok Sabha, archived from the original on November 12, 2016 ; accessed on November 12, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / 164.100.47.192
personal data
SURNAME Joshi, Murli Manohar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES मुरली मनोहर जोशी
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Delhi , then British India , now India