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Murli Manohar Joshi
  • Date of Birth:
    January 5, 1934
  • Place of Birth:
    New Delhi, India
  • Sex:
    Male
  • Hair Color:
    White
  • Eye Color:
    Brown
  • Nationality:
    Indian
  • Religion:
    Hinduism
  • Education:

    Meerut College

    Allahabad University

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Murli Manohar Joshi

    Career

    Murli Manohar Joshi

    Trivia

    Murli Manohar Joshi
    • Dr.Joshi was appointed as Chairman of the Manifesto Preparation Board of the BJP in 2009.
    • He has won elections for the nationa parliamentary seat from the Varanasi lok sabha constituency for BJP in May 2009.
    • He also served as the home minister for 13 days government in 1996.
    • Joshi was defeated from the seat he had held all along; namely Allahabad, in the Lok Sabha elections of May, 2004.
    • Joshi is known to have been influenced by the life and work of right-wing intellectualVeer Savarkar, Shri Guruji and Deendayal Upadhyaya.
    • As General Secretary of BJP, he was directly in charge of Bihar, Bengal and North-Eastern States.
    • Joshi first looked after the Central Office as a General Secretary and later became Party Treasurer.
    • After the fall of the government, his party came out of Janata Party in 1980, and formed the Bharatiya Janata Party or the BJP.
    • 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.
    • He was elected Member of Parliament from Almora.

    Quotes

    Murli Manohar Joshi
    • "Please assure the country that India would not sign NPT and would not allow Thorium programme to be killed."
    • "All of us including RSS leader H V Sheshadri, former Union minister Murli Manohar Joshi and myself appealed to the crowd not to demolish the mosque, but whatever happened after that was a sudden development."
    • "Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had himself claimed to control the economic recession and the price rise but people of the country know that during last three to four months the prices of the cereals, pulses, sugar and other eatables have swelled the most."
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    Biography

    Murli Manohar Joshi
    Last Updated: Saturday, September 19, 2009

    murli manohar joshiMurli Manohar Joshi is one of the top three leaders of B.J.P. He is India’s renowned scholar, as well as an intelligent scientist. He was born on January 5, 1934. His early education was completed at Hindu High School, Chandpur and thereafter he joined Meerut College and Allahabad University to acquire higher education. Pursuing specialisation in spectroscopy, he was awarded Ph. D by the Allahabad University.

    Dr. Joshi is a strong advocate of a modern, strong and vibrant India. He has been arrested several times as a Jana Sangh leader, mobilising public opinion and leading agitations. In 1977, he was elected to the Lok Sabha and from 1992 to 1996 he was a member of the Rajya Sabha. He was elected fellow of Russian National Academy of Natural Sciences in 2001. He is the first Indian to be elected to this Academy which has many Nobel laureates as its members. The Indian Science Congress conferred on him the Jawaharlal Nehru Award in 1999. For him, politics is not a goal in itself, it is a mission. It is a means to serve.

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