Politics News Desk!!! Ramvilas Paswan (English: Ramvilas Paswan, born- July 5, 1946, Khagaria, Bihar; died- October 8, 2020, New Delhi) was the President of Lok Janshakti Party. He was one of the prominent leaders of Indian Dalit politics. In the 17th Lok Sabha, he was given the charge of the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution. Ram Vilas Paswan was the Union Minister in the National Democratic Alliance government. In August 2010, he was elected member of Bihar Rajya Sabha and was made member of the Committee on Personnel and Pension Affairs and Rural Development.
Birth
Lok Janshakti Party President Ram Vilas Paswan was born on 5 July 1946 in a Dalit family in Khagaria district of Bihar. He did M.A. from Bundelkhand University Jhansi. And did LLB from Patna University. He married Rajkumari Devi in the 1960s. He has two daughters, Usha and Asha, from his first wife Rajkumari. In 1983, he married Reena Sharma, an air hostess from Amritsar and a Punjabi Hindu. They have a son and daughter. His son Chirag Paswan is an actor and politician.
Elected DSP, became a politician
Ram Vilas Paswan was good in studies. He passed the Administrative Services Examination of Bihar and was selected for the post of Deputy Superintendent of Police i.e. DSP. But at that time there was a lot of political turmoil in Bihar and during this time Ram Vilas Paswan met a socialist leader from Begusarai district who was impressed by Paswan’s talent and inspired him to enter politics. In 1969, Ram Vilas Paswan contested the elections from Alauli reserved assembly seat on the ticket of the United Socialist Party and from here the direction of his political life was decided. Paswan ji later joined the JP movement and remained in jail for almost two years after the Emergency imposed in 1975. But initially he was not counted among the big youth leaders of Bihar.
political activities
For the first time in 1969, he was elected as a candidate of the United Socialist Party in the Rajya Sabha elections of Bihar. In 1977, Ram Vilas Paswan was elected to the sixth Lok Sabha as a Janata Party candidate. Paswan was victorious for the second time in the Lok Sabha elections held in 1982. In 1983, he formed Dalit Sena for the upliftment of Dalits and in 1989, he was elected to the Lok Sabha for the third time in the ninth Lok Sabha. He was elected to the tenth Lok Sabha in 1996. In 2000, Ram Vilas Paswan separated from Janata Dal United and formed Lok Janshakti Party. He was also victorious in the twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth Lok Sabha. In August 2010, Bihar was elected as a member of the Rajya Sabha and was made a member of the Committee on Personnel and Pension Affairs and Rural Development.[1]
extraordinary ability
Not only being a MLA and MP for 50 years, but also being a minister in all the governments since 1996, is such an extraordinary qualification that even Ajit Singh was stunned. It is not an easy task to cultivate many Prime Ministers like Deve Gowda-Gujral to Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Manmohan Singh and Narendra Modi. Apart from this, Ram Vilas Paswan paid special attention to his workers and in such a long time, no major issue of resentment of his workers or supporters has come to light. When he became the Railway Minister, he got the regional headquarters of Railways built in his constituency Hajipur.
Ajit Singh, who was losing a little bit of the strong political ground built by his father every time, is no longer in the government and Parliament, but Ram Vilas Paswan, born in a weak Dalit family, is not only preserving his political ground but is also increasing it. Before the 2019 general elections, he forced even stalwarts like Narendra Modi and Amit Shah to take another step. With an agreement to contest on six Lok Sabha seats in Bihar, making arrangements to reach the Rajya Sabha from Assam itself is no mean feat. V.P. Singh was a member of the Rajya Sabha, hence Ram Vilas was the leader of the ruling coalition in the Lok Sabha. At that time, Sharad Yadav could not create any base in the OBC and Yadav vote bank, which had a large number of people, but Ram Vilas created a base among the Dalits of Bihar, especially the Dusadhs and Muslims, which remains with him till now.
Ram Vilas Paswan, who was a minister in most of the central governments, also played an important role in many governments. He was called the meteorologist of politics. Ram Vilas Paswan, people across the country heard this name after the 1977 elections. The news was that a leader won the election from a seat in Bihar by such a huge margin that his name got included in the Guinness Book of World Records. In that election, Ram Vilas Paswan entered the Lok Sabha for the first time by defeating the Congress candidate from Hajipur seat on Janata Party ticket by more than 4.25 lakh votes. Paswan had already won the MLA election eight years before, but that victory in 1977 made Ram Vilas Paswan a national leader. For more than the next four decades, he continued to play an important role in national politics. He was an MP nine times. In his 50 years of political career, he had to face defeat only in 1984 and 2009. Since 1989, he has been a minister in every Prime Minister’s government except the second UPA government of Narasimha Rao and Manmohan Singh.
Taking a dig at Vishwanath Pratap Singh’s ability to make his place in the governments of HD Deve Gowda, Inder Kumar Gujral, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Manmohan Singh and Narendra Modi, Lalu at one time became his ally and later his political opponent. Prasad Yadav had called him the meteorologist of politics. Ram Vilas Paswan, who holds the record of election victory, had also lost from Hajipur in 1984. When in 2009 he was defeated by an elderly socialist like Ramsundar Das, he realized that he gives his Dalit votes to those doing OBC politics, but he does not get OBC votes. Even though they are not OBC, they often get the upper caste votes. The time from 2005 to 2009 was a difficult period for Ram Vilas in terms of Bihar politics. This happened even after losing the elections in 1984, but at that time his stature was not so big and with the help of Dalit Sena formed in 1983, he also tried his luck in many by-elections in Uttar Pradesh. Though defeated, Dalits were successful in establishing a parallel camp for BSP in politics.
In 2005, he kept claiming to form the government in the Bihar assembly elections or take the key to power amid the fight between Lalu and Nitish. Firstly, Nitish Kumar gave him a shock by removing his 12 MLAs and Governor Buta Singh gave a big blow to his politics by creating a situation for re-election. In the elections held in November, Lalu Prasad’s 15-year rule ended and Ram Vilas’ entire politics disintegrated. His claim of holding the key to forming the government in Bihar remained intact. He again returned to central politics. Like Lalu Prasad, he also remained a minister at the Centre.
a look
Ram Vilas Paswan, a veteran leader of Bihar politics, has been elected MP from Jamui Lok Sabha seat of Bihar in the sixteenth and seventeenth Lok Sabha. Paswan, who left the job of Bihar Police and entered politics, was elected MLA for the Bihar Legislative Assembly for the first time in 1969 from the United Socialist Party. He always considered Raj Narayan and Jaiprakash Narayan as his idols. Since his student days, he actively participated in the socialist movement of Jayaprakash Narayan. After the declaration of Emergency in 1975, he was arrested and spent the entire period in jail during the Emergency. He was released in 1977. Ram Vilas Paswan, who started as MLA in 1969, remained MLA and MP continuously for 50 years till 2019. Ram Vilas Paswan, who joined the Janata Party in 1977, registered his name in the ‘Guinness Book of World Records’ by winning the Hajipur seat with a record vote. After some struggling moments, he never looked back in politics. After being in various parties (Lok Dal, Janata Party-S, Samata Dal, Samata Party, JDU), he announced the formation of Lok Janshakti Party in Delhi on 28 November 2000. He was a minister in almost all the governments of different parties formed from 1996 to 2018. This is the reason why his opponents call him a meteorologist. He was present in the Union Cabinet in all the governments for three decades. He has been the Railway Minister of India (1996 – 1998), Union Minister of Minerals (2001 – 2002), Union Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers (2004 – 2009) and Union Minister of Consumer Affairs (26 May 2015).[4]
It is said that in his entire political career, Paswan ji failed to sense the direction of the wind only once, when in 2009, he suddenly joined the Congress’s hand with Lalu Yadav and then lost from the same Hajipur seat from where he holds the record. Had been winning with votes. But he made up for his mistake to some extent when the very next year, with the help of Lalu Yadav’s party RJD and Congress, he made it to the Rajya Sabha. But Ram Vilas Paswan, who was considered an expert in political juggling, was initially going to become only a politician, it was not so.[3]
dalit leader in suit
Along with Ram Vilas Paswan’s family, his style is also discussed. Among the generation and group whose leader Paswan ji was, he created his own unique path with his lifestyle, especially with his dressing. Journalist Arvind Mohan, in an article on BBC Hindi in 2018, mentioned an interesting incident when Ram Vilas Paswan announced his 72nd birthday on July 5 on social media. Then his old friend and now political opponent Shivanand Tiwari had asked – “Ram Vilas Bhai, what are you eating to stop your life? When we have reached 75, then how come you are stuck at 72 only.” Shivanand Tiwari reminded that you had become MLA in 1969 itself. Then you will also have the minimum age to be an MLA, so accordingly you have crossed 75. According to journalist Manikant Thakur, when someone asked Ram Vilas Paswan about his image of ‘five star Dalit leader’, he used to get irritated. His answer was – “This is the mentality of your people that Dalits have to live in poverty all their lives and we are breaking them, so why are they suffering?” Who was Ram Vilas Paswan and how to remember him? Journalist Arvind Mohan sums it up in this one line – “Ram Vilas Paswan did not do very idealistic politics, but being born in a Dalit family and rising to such heights without any help or family background, it tells about his spirit that he What could have been done”.
death
Bihar’s prominent leader and Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan died on October 8, 2020 in New Delhi at the age of 74 after prolonged illness. His mortal remains were taken from Delhi to Patna on October 9, 2020. Paswan ji’s mortal remains reached Patna airport by a special Air Force aircraft.
national flag flown
The national flag on all buildings in Patna was flown at half mast on October 9, 2020, in honor of late Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan. In the order issued in this regard by the Cabinet Secretariat Department, it was said that ‘on all those buildings of Patna where the national flag is hoisted regularly, the flag will remain at half mast’. It was also written in the order that ‘the national flag at that place will remain lowered on the day of the funeral’.