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Jamuna Prasad Nishad (1953 – 19 November 2010) was an Indian politician from the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), representing the Pipraich constituency in the Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha (Legislative Assembly). He belongs form Nishad Community of OBC. Nishad became the Minister for Fisheries in the Mayawati government,〔 〕 but was forced to resign after being named on charges of murdering a policeman.〔 〕 He was also named in eight other criminal charges.〔 ==Political career== Nishad drew his political support from the OBC community in eastern UP, and also from Muslims. Despite contesting in about fifteen elections, he had won only twice, once as a village mayor (''gram pradhan'') and then in 2007 to the state legislative assembly.〔 He first contested in the Assembly elections in 1985 as an independent, and then again in 1989 and 1991, losing on all three occasions. Subsequently he was fielded by the Samajwadi Party (SP),〔 〕 and lost Lok Sabha elections to Yogi Adityanath in 1998, 1999 and 2004.〔(Political Representation )〕 In 1996, he changed affiliations to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BSP) but lost again from Pipraich. In 2002, he changed his assembly constituency to Paniyara as an SP candidate and lost. He finally won as gram Pradhan from his native village and in the Uttar Pradesh Elections 2007, he won from the Pipraich constituency with a 7% (6,000 vote) margin〔(State Elections 2007 - Constituency wise detail for 168-Pipraich Constituency of Uttar Pradesh )〕 over the criminal-politician and liquor-baron Jitendra Jaiswal alias Pappu, erstwhile minister under Kalyan Singh of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He was appointed as Minister of Fisheries by BSP leader Mayawati. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Late -Jamuna Nishad」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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