Sanjay Nishad is an Indian politician serving as a cabinet minister in the

Second Yogi Adityanath ministry The Second ministry of Yogi Adityanath is the council of ministers in headed by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, which was formed after 2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election which was held in seven phases during February and March in ...

. He has been a member of

Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council The Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council also known as Vidhan Parishad is the upper house of the bicameral legislature of Uttar Pradesh, a state in India. Uttar Pradesh is one of the six states in India, where the state legislature is bicameral, c ...

since 2021. As a member of the

Nishad The Nishad are a Hindu caste, found in the Indian states of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. In Bihar, the term refers to a group of around 20 communities whose traditional occupations centred on rivers, such as the Mallaah. There have been demands fo ...

caste, he founded the

NISHAD Party Nirbal Indian Shoshit Hamara Aam Dal is a political party in India. It was founded on 16 August 2016. The Nishad Party was formed for empowerment of Nishad, Kewats, Bind, Beldar, Mallah, Sahani, Kashyap, Gond communities whose traditional occ ...

in 2016.

Early life and education

Sanjay Nishad was born to a Nishad family on 7 June 1965 in Chaumukha,

Gorakhpur Gorakhpur is a city in the List of state and union territory capitals in India, Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, along the banks of the West Rapti River, Rapti river in the Purvanchal , Purvanchal region. It is situated 272 kilometres east of ...

. He completed a course in

electrohomeopathy Electrohomeopathy, also called electrohomoeopathy, electropathy or the Mattei cancer cure, is a historical proposed alternative to miasma theory and then-increasingly popular germ theory, as well as associated techniques. Invented in the 19th ce ...

. He initiated a struggle to get this course recognised as a medical discipline, and founded the Purvanchal Medical Electro Homeopathy Association in 2002 and became its president. Before forming the

, he ran a clinic at Geeta Vatika Road,

for a decade.

Political career

In 2021, Nishad won the election for the

Legislative Council A legislative council is the legislature, or one of the legislative chambers, of a nation, colony, or subnational division such as a province or state. It was commonly used to label unicameral or upper house legislative bodies in the Brit ...

and became a member of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council. After the victory of NDA in 2022 UP Elections, he became a Cabinet Minister in the

, and took the oath on 25 March 2022.

Controversy

On 29 April 2022, Sanjay Nishad gave a controversial statement to the media where he claimed that a person who does not love

Hindi Modern Standard Hindi (, ), commonly referred to as Hindi, is the Standard language, standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in the Devanagari script. It is an official language of India, official language of the Government ...

is "a foreigner or linked to foreign powers" and that "Hindustan is not a place for those who don’t speak Hindi. They should leave this country and go somewhere else.”

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Nishad, Sanjay 1965 births Living people Members of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council State cabinet ministers of Uttar Pradesh Yogi ministry Politicians from Gorakhpur NISHAD Party politicians