Misa Bharti

Last updated

Shailesh Kumar
​
(m. 1999)​
Misha Bharti
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
Incumbent
Assumed office
4 June 2024
Relations Tejashwi Yadav (brother)
Tej Pratap Yadav (brother)
Sadhu Yadav (uncle)
Subhash Prasad Yadav (uncle)
Tej Pratap Singh Yadav (brother-in-law)
Chiranjeev Rao (brother-in-law)
Children3 (2 daughters and 1 son)
Parents
Education M.B.B.S Pictogram voting comment.svg  controversial
Alma mater MGM Medical College, Jamshedpur
Occupation Politician

Misha Bharti [1] [2] (born 22 May 1976) is an Indian politician from the state of Bihar and the daughter of Lalu Prasad and Rabri Devi [3] In June 2016, she was the party's nominee for the Rajya Sabha biennial elections and was elected unopposed along with Ram Jethmalani from Bihar. [4] She is currently serving as the Member of Parliament from Patliputra. [5]

Contents

Early life and education

Misha Bharti was born in 1976 to two former Chief Ministers of Bihar, Lalu Prasad and his wife Rabri Devi. Lalu named his daughter Misa after the Misa Act, due to which he was in prison during the Emergency when she was born. [6] She is the eldest of her parents' nine children (7 daughters and 2 sons). [7]

Misha joined the MBBS course in MGM Medical College, Jamshedpur in 1993 on a TISCO quota, a privilege linked to her father's political influence, despite her lacking any ties to the company. She was later shifted to Patna Medical College Hospital (PMCH) citing security reasons. Misha is alleged to have topped the MBBS exams in gynecology at PMCH through visibly unlawful means. [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] She never practiced as a doctor, citing her commitment to marriage and managing the household as her reasons. [13] [14]

Personal life

Misha Bharti married Shailesh Kumar, a computer engineer, on 10 December 1999. [11] The couple has three children, two daughters and one son. [15]

Political career

Misha Bharti contested 2014 Lok Sabha elections from Pataliputra on a Rashtriya Janata Dal ticket. She lost to Ram Kripal Yadav, former most trusted man of Lalu Prasad. In June 2016, she was the party's nominee for the Rajya Sabha elections and was elected unopposed along with Ram Jethmalani from Bihar. [16] She again contested 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Pataliputra losing to BJP's Ram Kripal Yadav. [17] [12] [18] In Lok Sabha Election 2024, Lalu Prasad's daughter Misha Bharti won from the Patliputra seat by 85,174 votes. [19] [20] [21]

Controversies

On March 3, 2015, she claimed to have given a lecture at the India Conference at Harvard University, but this was later debunked by the university, which revealed that she had only purchased a ticket to attend as an audience member. [22]

Statements

Before the Loksabha election of 2019, Misa expressed in a public gathering that she felt like using a sickle to cut off Ram Kripal Yadav's hands when he had switched his loyalty [23] [24]

Before the Loksabha election of 2024, Misa questioned the need to visit the newly consecrated Ram Mandir. [25] [26] Just a couple of days later, Misa said that if I.N.D.I.A Bloc is granted a chance to rule by the People, PM Modi, along with all the BJP leaders, will be in jail. [27] [28] A few days later, she again attacked him referring to him as “ये बूढ़ा प्रधानमन्त्री“ (this aged Prime Minister). [29] [30] A month later, her rival in the constituency, Ram Kripal Yadav, was shot at. He claimed that the attackers were members of her party. [31]

Criminal Accusations

An FIR had been filed against Misa, Tejashwi, and others for allegedly offering a Lok Sabha ticket in 2019 in return for Rs 5 crore, based on a complaint by Congress leader Sanjiv Kumar Singh in the Patna CJM court on August 18, 2021. He further alleged that he received death threats after protesting. [32] Her sister-in-law, Aishwarya Rai, who is also the wife of Tej Pratap Yadav, accused Misa to Mahila Police of assaulting her, stealing her jewellery, and creating a rift between her and her in-laws. [33] [34]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lalu Prasad Yadav</span> 20th Chief Minister of Bihar

Lalu Prasad is an Indian politician and president of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD). He is a former Chief Minister of Bihar (1990-1997), a former Railway Minister of India (2004-2009), and a former Member of Parliament (MP) of the Lok Sabha & Rajya Sabha.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rashtriya Janata Dal</span> Political party in India

The Rashtriya Janata Dal is an Indian political party, mainly based in the state of Bihar. The party was founded in 1997 by Lalu Prasad Yadav.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rabri Devi</span> Leader of the Opposition in the Bihar Legislative Council

Rabri Devi is an Indian politician who formerly served 3 terms as the Chief Minister of Bihar, the first and only woman till date to have held the office. She is a Member (MLC) of Bihar Legislative Council and currently serving as the Leader of the Opposition in Bihar Legislative Council.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Pappu Yadav</span> Indian politician (born 1967)

Rajesh Ranjan popularly known as Pappu Yadav, is an Indian politician from Bihar, and a member of Parliament (MP) representing Purnia constituency in Bihar.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sadhu Yadav</span> Indian politician based in Bihar

Anirudh Prasad Yadav, better known as Sadhu Yadav, is an Indian politician and founder of Garib Janta Dal (Secular). He has served in 14th Lok Sabha as MP of Gopalganj from 2004 to 2009 as Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) candidate. Sadhu was MLA of Gopalganj assembly from 2000 to 2004.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ram Kripal Yadav</span> Indian politician

Ram Kripal Yadav is an Indian politician and a member of the 17th Lok Sabha from the Pataliputra parliamentary constituency in Bihar. He was a member of Rashtriya Janata Dal and was a close confidant of Lalu Yadav. Later he joined Bharatiya Janata Party. He was first a mayor in Bihar, and later the Minister of State for Rural Development in central cabinet in Delhi from 2014 to 2019.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sharad Yadav</span> Indian politician (1947–2023)

Sharad Yadav was an Indian politician from the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) party. He was elected to the Lok Sabha seven times and to the Rajya Sabha four times from JD(U). He was the first national president of Janata Dal (United), serving from its formation in 2003 until 2016. He was disqualified from the Rajya Sabha in 2017 and removed from party leadership positions for engaging in anti-party activities.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Raghopur Assembly constituency</span> Vidhan Sabha constituency

Raghopur is an assembly constituency in Vaishali district in the Indian state of Bihar. It consists of Raghopur and Bidupur.

Ranjan Prasad Yadav was a member of the 15th Lok Sabha of India. Yadav represented the Pataliputra constituency of Bihar and is a member of the Janata Dal (United) political party.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jagada Nand Singh</span> Indian politician (born 1945)

Jagada Nand Singh is an Indian politician. He is son of Lt. Ramruchi Singh and has done LLB from Harish Chander College in Varanasi in the year 1973. He was a member of the Indian Parliament and represented Buxar in the 15th Lok Sabha from RJD. He was also a 6 term MLA of RJD from Ramgarh Constituency before he became an MP from Buxar of RJD. He is State President of Rashtriya Janata Dal of Bihar.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tejashwi Yadav</span> 5th Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar

Tejashwi Prasad Yadav is an Indian politician and former professional cricketer who served as the 5th Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar from 10 August 2022 to 28 January 2024.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Danapur Assembly constituency</span> Assembly constituency in Bihar, India

Danapur is one of 243 constituencies of legislative assembly of Bihar. It comes under Pataliputra Lok Sabha constituency along with other assembly constituencies viz. Masaurhi, Maner, Phulwari, Paliganj and Bikram.

The list of political families of Bihar state of India:

Rama Kishore Singh is an Indian politician and is a former member of the Indian Parliament from Vaishali, Bihar. He won the 2014 Indian general election as a Lok Jan Shakti Party candidate. He defeated vice-president of RJD Raghuvansh Prasad Singh by around 1 lakh votes. He enjoys considerable support from the Rajput caste despite having criminal antecedent. He quit all party posts he held on 15 September 2015.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ritlal Yadav</span> Indian politician

Ritlal Yadav or Ritlal Ray is a leader of RJD who won the Bihar Legislative Council election in July 2015 as an independent candidate. Ritlal was in jail in connection with multiple criminal cases, including murder charges. Ritlal is accused in over 33 cases. He was a former Member of Legislative Council (MLC), the post, to which he was elected in 2016. He was incarcerated in Beur Jail until August 2020. However he was then released from the jail on bail. Ritlal Yadav defeated BJP's Asha Devi Sinha in the 2020 Bihar Assembly elections.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tej Pratap Yadav</span> Indian politician (born 1988)

Tej Pratap Yadav (born 16 April 1988) is an Indian politician. He was cabinet minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change in the Government of Bihar. He is the elder son of former Chief Ministers of Bihar, Lalu Prasad Yadav and Rabri Devi.

Mahagathbandhan, also known as Grand Alliance, is a coalition of political parties in the Eastern state of Bihar in India, formed ahead of the 2015 Vidhan Sabha elections in Bihar. The alliance consists of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), Indian National Congress (INC) and Left parties including Communist Party of India (CPI), Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation-CPIML (Liberation) and Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPIM), with Tejashwi Yadav as the chairperson.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Virendra Yadav</span> Indian Politician (born 3 May 1961)

Bhai Virendra Yadav is an Indian politician. He was elected to the Bihar Legislative Assembly from Maner in 2010 Bihar Legislative Assembly elections, as a member of the Rashtriya Janata Dal. Currently he is serving as a Main spokesman of Bihar RJD Party. Virendra was interested to contest from Patliputra in 2019 Lok Sabha election but he was opposed by Tej Pratap Yadav, as latter's elder sister Misa Bharti was contesting from that seat in 2019. He is currently the chairman of Public account committee (PAC), Bihar Vidhan Sabha.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">2024 Indian general election in Bihar</span> 18th Indian general election election in Bihar

The 2024 Indian general election was held in Bihar in all 7 phases from 19 April to 1 June to elect 40 members of the 18th Lok Sabha, with the results declared on 4 June.

Sanjay Yadav is an Indian politician from Haryana, who has been serving as Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha from Bihar since 2024. He is a member of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), and known as a senior political advisor to its leader Tejashwi Yadav, son of Lalu Prasad Yadav.

References

  1. ↑ "Loksabha 2024 Affidavit". Election Commission of India - Affidavit Portal. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 6 January 2025.
  2. ↑ "Misha Bharti - The Hindu". The Hindu . Archived from the original on 5 January 2025. Retrieved 6 January 2025.
  3. ↑ "Piyush Goyal, Chidambaram, Suresh Prabhu, Sharad Yadav elected to Rajya Sabha". The Economic Times. 3 June 2016.
  4. ↑ "Sharad Yadav, Ram Jethmalani, Misa Bharti Elected To Rajya Sabha From Bihar". NDTV.com. Retrieved 5 June 2024.
  5. ↑ "Lok Sabha Election Result 2024: RJD Candidate From Patliputra, Misa Bharti Wins Against BJP's Ram Kripal Yadav". ABP Live. 4 June 2024. Retrieved 5 June 2024.
  6. ↑ Rajat Maurya (24 April 2024). "Misa Bharti Name History: मीसा भारती का नाम 'मीसा' कैसे पड़ा? जेपी नड्डा बोले- जब Lalu Yadav जेल में थे..." Dainik Jagran . Archived from the original on 23 June 2024. Retrieved 6 January 2025.
  7. ↑ Anand ST Das (11 July 2017). "Tej, Tejashwi and Misa: Here's all you need to know about Lalu's children". The New Indian Express . Retrieved 15 June 2019.
  8. ↑ "MISA CLASSMATES SHRUG OFF MARKS ANNUAL RITUAL". The Telegraph. 7 December 1999. Archived from the original on 15 January 2023. Retrieved 6 January 2025.
  9. ↑ "Misha pal in JD(U), may fight Tej in polls". The Times of India. 3 July 2018. Archived from the original on 9 September 2018. Retrieved 3 July 2018.
  10. ↑ "Now, Laloo Yadav secures MBBS seat for his second daughter through backdoor". 27 April 1998. Archived from the original on 3 July 2018. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
  11. 1 2 "A marriage made in 1, Anne Marg". Archived from the original on 3 July 2018. Retrieved 3 July 2018.
  12. 1 2 "Misa rumblings in Lalu paradise". The Telegraph . 21 November 2015. Retrieved 18 June 2019.
  13. ↑ "Misa Bharti Age, Wiki and Bio". ProfileAge. Archived from the original on 5 January 2025. Retrieved 6 January 2025.
  14. ↑ Malay Ojha (9 April 2014). "Misa Bharti gears up to take on her uncles in Pataliputra". India Today. Archived from the original on 29 August 2022. Retrieved 6 January 2025.
  15. ↑ "Another double for grandfather Lalu". Archived from the original on 4 July 2018. Retrieved 3 July 2018.
  16. ↑ "P Chidambaram, Suresh Prabhu get straight road to RS, polls hot up in five states". Archived from the original on 29 June 2016. Retrieved 25 October 2017.
  17. ↑ "Lok Sabha elections 2019: Misa Bharti vs Ram Kripal Yadav in Pataliputra". The Telegraph . 23 May 2019. Retrieved 18 June 2019.
  18. ↑ "Patliputra". News 18 . Retrieved 18 June 2019.
  19. ↑ "In Lok Sabha election 2024, Lalu Prasad's daughter Misa Bharti won from the Patliputra seat by 88 thousand votes". Prabhat Khabar. Retrieved 27 June 2024.
  20. ↑ The Economic Times (6 June 2024). "Bullish Wins & Bearish Losses: Here are the key contests and results of 2024 Lok Sabha polls". Archived from the original on 27 July 2024. Retrieved 27 July 2024.
  21. ↑ India Today (13 July 2024). "Inheritors | Next-gen netas" . Retrieved 25 October 2024.
  22. ↑ "Lalu Prasad's daughter Misa Bharti red-faced as Harvard University denies her lecture claim". The Economic Times . 11 March 2015. Archived from the original on 11 June 2023. Retrieved 6 January 2025. Harvard vishwavidyalaya mein yuvaaon ki bhagidaari ko lekar vyaakhyaan dete huey (At Harvard university giving a presentation on the role of youth)
  23. ↑ The Quint (18 January 2019). Misa Bharti on RJD Leader-Turned-Rebel Ram Yadav: 'Felt Like Cutting His Hands' . Retrieved 6 January 2025– via YouTube.
  24. ↑ Quint, The (19 January 2019). "RJD leader Misa Bharti stirred the hornet's nest with her comments at a rally that she felt like chopping the hands of loyalist-turned-rebel Ram Kripal Yadav". TheQuint. Archived from the original on 20 July 2024. Retrieved 6 January 2025.
  25. ↑ "RJD signalling strategy shift vis-a-vis Ram Mandir? Party's Misa Bharti says 'will visit after polls'". web.archive.org. 6 January 2025. Retrieved 6 January 2025.
  26. ↑ Republic Bharat (13 April 2024). Misa Bharti News: 'राम मंदिर जाने की जरुरत नहीं...'- Misa Bharti | R Bharat . Retrieved 6 January 2025– via YouTube.
  27. ↑ Lalu Yadav's daughter Misa Bharti threatens to put PM Modi in jail if elected to power (Video) (in Hindi). Zee Business. 11 April 2024. Retrieved 6 January 2025.
  28. ↑ "BJP shreds Lalu's daughter Misa Bharti over her remarks against Prime Minister Modi". The Times of India . 11 April 2024. Archived from the original on 23 April 2024. Retrieved 6 January 2025. If the people of this country give INDIA bloc a chance to form the government, PM Modi and many BJP leaders will be in jail.
  29. ↑ Misa Bharti Budha Pradhanmanti Remark on Narendra Modi (Video) (in Hindi). 2 May 2024. Retrieved 6 January 2025.
  30. ↑ "अग्निवीर चार साल में रिटायर लेकिन बूढ़े को चाहिए तीसरा मौका; मीसा भारती का नरेंद्र मोदी पर हमला". हिन्दुस्तान. 2 May 2024. Archived from the original on 3 May 2024. Retrieved 6 January 2025.
  31. ↑ "बिहार: बीजेपी प्रत्याशी रामकृपाल यादव पर फायरिंग, एक समर्थक को गोली लगने की खबर". Navbharat Times (in Hindi). Retrieved 6 January 2025.
  32. ↑ "FIR against Tejashwi Yadav, Misa Bharti, Bihar Congress chief in cash for Lok Sabha ticket case - India News". web.archive.org. 4 October 2021. Retrieved 6 January 2025.
  33. ↑ "Lalu Prasad's daughter-in-law Aishwarya Rai accuses Misa Bharati of creating rift between Tej Pratap Yadav and Tejashwi Yadav". The Hindu. 1 October 2023. Archived from the original on 1 October 2023. Retrieved 6 January 2025.
  34. ↑ IANS (30 September 2019). "'Misa tortured me, didn't allow me to enter kitchen': Lalu Yadav's daughter-in-law". The Statesman. Retrieved 6 January 2025.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.