Baij Nath Prasad Kushwaha was an Indian politician based in

Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh ( ; UP) is a States and union territories of India, state in North India, northern India. With over 241 million inhabitants, it is the List of states and union territories of India by population, most populated state in In ...

, who was elected to

Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly The Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly, also known as Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha, is the lower house of Bicameralism, bicameral legislature of the Indian state Uttar Pradesh. There are 403 seats in the house. Member of the Legislative Assembl ...

1974 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election Elections to the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly were held in February 1974 to elect members of the 424 constituencies in Uttar Pradesh, India. The Indian National Congress, won a majority of seats and Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna was appointed ...

from

Sirathu Assembly constituency Sirathu constituency holds significant political and demographic importance within the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly. Situated in the Kaushambi district of Uttar Pradesh, India, it encompasses the city of Sirathu. As one of the five asse ...

. He was a member of

Bharatiya Kranti Dal Bharatiya Kranti Dal was a political party in India, founded by Chaudhary Charan Singh, chief minister of Uttar Pradesh. The party was founded at a meeting in Lucknow in October 1967. After the 1977 general election, the successor party of the ...

. He became a member of sixth Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly by getting elected in 1974.

Life

Born in September 1923 to Ghisan Lal, Baijnath Kushwaha was married to Shakuntala Devi in 1944 at an early age. They had a son and four daughters from this marriage. Kushwaha was engaged in small scale trade before joining active politics through

in 1970s. He was a resident of a locality called Lukarganj in

Allahabad district Prayagraj district, formerly known as Allahabad district, is the most populous district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Prayagraj city is the district headquarters of this district. The District is divided into blocks within tehsils. A ...

of Uttar Pradesh. In 1974, he was elected to Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly for the first time, becoming a part of 6th Uttar Pradesh Assembly. In 1977, he contested once again in Assembly elections and became a part of 7th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly by getting elected on the ticket of

Janata Party The Janata Party (JP, ) is an unrecognised political party in India. Navneet Chaturvedi is the current president of the party since November 2021, replacing Jaiprakash Bandhu. The JP was established as an amalgam of Indian political partie ...

References

Uttar Pradesh MLAs 1974–1977 Uttar Pradesh MLAs 1977–1980 Janata Party politicians People from Kaushambi district 1923 births {{India-politician-stub Bharatiya Kranti Dal politicians