Nagendra Nath Tripathi is an Indian politician currently serving as the Regional General Secretary (Organization) of the

Bharatiya Janata Party The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; , ) is a political party in India and one of the two major List of political parties in India, Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. BJP emerged out from Syama Prasad Mukherjee's ...

Bihar-Jharkhand region. He has been a

pracharak The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS,, ) is an Indian right-wing, Hindu nationalist volunteer paramilitary organisation. It is the progenitor and leader of a large body of organisations called the Sangh Parivar (Hindi for "Sangh family"), whi ...

for the

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS,, ) is an Indian right-wing politics, right-wing, Hindutva, Hindu nationalist volunteer paramilitary organisation. It is the progenitor and leader of a large body of organisations called the Sangh Parivar ( ...

. He forms a bridge between Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and

Early life and political career

Nagendra Nath Tripathi was born on 1 March 1955 in Belauli village of

Sant Kabir Nagar Sant Kabir Nagar district is one of the 75 districts of Uttar Pradesh state in northern India. Khalilabad is the district headquarters. Sant Kabir Nagar district is a part of Basti division. The total area of Sant Kabir Nagar district is . Eco ...

(then a part of Basti),

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 ...

. Born into a family of farmers, he is the eldest among the five children to Girjapati Tripathi and Ganesha Devi. During his higher secondary school days in ''Basti'', he joined the local ''shakha'' of the

as a ''swayamsevak''(member). He went on to become a full-time

, poornkaalik. He was then transferred to

(BJP). After serving for a long period of about eight years as the General Secretary (Organisation) of the BJP Uttar Pradesh unit, and then as the General Secretary (Organisation) of the BJP Bihar Pradesh unit.

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* * 1955 births Living people Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Uttar Pradesh {{UttarPradesh-BJP-politician-stub