Murli Manohar Joshi

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Murli Manohar Joshi
Murli Manohar Joshi MP.jpg
Official portrait, 2014
Union Minister of Human Resource Development
In office
19 March 1998 – 22 May 2004
SpouseTarla Joshi
Education BSc, MSc, PhD
Alma mater University of Allahabad
Awards Padma Vibhushan (2017)
Signature MurliManoharJoshi.jpg

Murli Manohar Joshi (born 5 January 1934) is an Indian politician. He is one of the founding members and a senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and served as its President from 1991 to 1993. In addition to his role in the BJP, he has been a lifelong member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a Hindu nationalist organisation. Joshi is the former Member of Parliament from Kanpur Lok Sabha constituency. [5] He is a former professor of physics in University of Allahabad. Joshi later became the Union Human Resources & Development Minister in the National Democratic Alliance government. [6] Joshi was awarded Padma Vibhushan, the second-highest civilian award, in 2017 by the Government of India. [7]

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Background and personal life

Joshi was born in Delhi on 5 January 1934. His family hails from Almora in Kumaon region, which is now part of the Uttarakhand state. His father's name was Manmohan Joshi. In 1966, Joshi was married to Tarla Joshi, a lady of his own community and similar family background, in a match arranged by their families in the usual Indian way. The lifelong marriage has proven entirely harmonious and conventional. The couple are the parents of two daughters, Nivedita and Priyamvada. [8] [9]

Education

Joshi had his early education in Chandpur, district Bijnor and in Almora, from where his family hails. He completed his B.Sc. from Meerut College and M.Sc. from Allahabad University. In Allahabad, one of his teachers was Rajendra Singh, who later became the Sarsanghchalak of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.

Joshi did his doctorate in physics at Allahabad University. The subject of his doctoral thesis was spectroscopy. He published a research paper in Physics in Hindi, which was a first of its kind. [10] After completing his PhD, Joshi started teaching physics at Allahabad University. [11]

Politics and activism

Joshi 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, [12] 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 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, Joshi was elected General Secretary of the Janata Parliamentary Party. After the fall of the government, his party came out of Janata Party in 1980, and formed the Bharatiya Janata Party or the BJP. Joshi first looked after the Central Office as a General Secretary and later became Party Treasurer. As General Secretary of BJP, he was directly in charge of Bihar, Bengal and North-Eastern States. Later, when BJP formed a government in India under Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Joshi served as the Human Resource Development Minister in the cabinet.

In December 1991, Joshi held a yatra , the EktaYatra, intended to signal that BJP supported national unity and opposed separatist movements. It began on 11 December in Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu and visited 14 states. [13] The rally's final stop to hoist the Indian flag in Jammu and Kashmir on 26 January 1992 was considered unsuccessful, with minimal local participation. [14]

Joshi is known to have been influenced by the life and work of Babasaheb Ambedkar, Mahatma Jyotiba Phule and Deendayal Upadhyaya. 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. [15] He also served as the home minister for 13 days government in 1996. Joshi was appointed as Chairman of the Manifesto Preparation Board of the BJP in 2009. He was honoured as "Proud Past Alumni" of Allahabad University by Allahabad University Alumni Association. [16] [17]

He was a sitting MP from Varanasi and he vacated that seat for Narendra Modi in 2014 Lok Sabha Elections. He later contested from Kanpur and won from the constituency by a margin of 2.23 lac votes. [18]

Awards and honours

National honours

Foreign honours

Honorary degrees

Other awards

References

  1. ↑ "Election Commission of India".
  2. ↑ Mathew, Liz (17 August 2018). "Vajpayee's comrades, LK Advani to Murli Manohar Joshi". The Indian Express. Retrieved 4 March 2026.
  3. 1 2 Yadav, Shyamlal (4 September 2025). "At RSS meeting, concerns raised about income inequality, poor per capita GDP — by BJP stalwart Murli Manohar Joshi". The Indian Express. Retrieved 5 March 2026.
  4. ↑ Varma, Pavan K (13 January 2024). "Just Like That | Murli Manohar Joshi at 90: The storied journey of a politician". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 4 March 2026.
  5. ↑ "Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi". The Times of India.
  6. ↑ Debashish Mukerji (15 November 1998). "Our students don know India's problems (Interview with Murli Manohar Joshi)". The Week. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 8 October 2014.
  7. ↑ "List of Padma awardees 2017". The Hindu. 25 January 2017. Retrieved 7 March 2021.
  8. ↑ Jain, Praveen (7 January 2024). "Murli Manohar Joshi turns 90: Well-wishers flock to Raisina Road to celebrate life of BJP stalwart". ThePrint. Retrieved 19 January 2024.
  9. ↑ Varma, Pavan K (14 January 2024). "Joshi at 90: The storied journey of a politician". epaper.hindustantimes.com/. Retrieved 19 January 2024.
  10. ↑ "Evolution of Dr Joshi - Welcome to Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi". Archived from the original on 26 June 2011. Retrieved 5 July 2011.
  11. ↑ "डॉ मुरली मनोहर जोशी: फिजिक्स के इस प्रोफेसर ने लिखी थी हिंदी में थिसिस, बाद में बने बीजेपी की 'तीसरी धरोहर'". ABP Live (in Hindi).
  12. ↑ Patrick, French; French, Patrick (27 January 2011). India: A Portrait. Penguin Books Limited. p. 131. ISBN   978-0-14-194700-6.
  13. ↑ Sharma, Naresh Kumar (22 January 2011). "BJP to go ahead with Ekta Yatra in Kashmir". The Times of India. Retrieved 22 March 2022.
  14. ↑ Bamzai, Kaveree (15 February 1992). "BJP flag-hoisting ceremony in Srinagar turns out to be a damp squib, militancy gets a boost". India Today. Retrieved 22 March 2022.
  15. ↑ Dikshit, Rajeev (16 May 2009). "Joshi beats Mukhtar with big margin Varanasi News - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 7 March 2021.
  16. ↑ "Allahbad University Alumni Association : Our Proud Past". archive.is. 10 November 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  17. ↑ "Our Proud Past". archive.is. 10 November 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  18. ↑ "Constituency wise-All Candidates". Eciresults.nic.in. 17 May 2014. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 18 August 2014.
  19. ↑ "Mongolia bestows top honour on Dr. Joshi; plans afoot for Indian universities abroad". Press Information Bureau. 29 July 2002.
  20. ↑ "Murli Manohar Joshi given Russia`s `Order of Friendship` award". Zee News. 16 December 2013.
  21. ↑ "Ukraine university to honour Dr. Joshi". Press Information Bureau. 2 September 2003.
  22. ↑ "Honorary degree to Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi and Mr. Narendra Singh Negi". Newspost. 30 November 2018.
  23. 1 2 "Russian academy honours Joshi". The Times of India. 26 July 2001.
  24. ↑ "Dasmunsi, M M Joshi to get Outstanding Parliamentarian award". Times of India . New Delhi. 6 August 2010. Retrieved 7 November 2012.
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