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class="interlanguage-link interwiki-as mw-list-item"><a href="https://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A7%B0%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AE_%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B8_%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%9B%E0%A7%B1%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A8" title="ৰাম বিলাস পাছৱান – Assamese" lang="as" hreflang="as" data-title="ৰাম বিলাস পাছৱান" data-language-autonym="অসমীয়া" data-language-local-name="Assamese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>অসমীয়া</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bh mw-list-item"><a href="https://bh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B8_%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A8" title="रामबिलास पासवान – Bhojpuri" lang="bh" hreflang="bh" data-title="रामबिलास पासवान" data-language-autonym="भोजपुरी" data-language-local-name="Bhojpuri" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>भोजपुरी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_Vilas_Paswan" title="Ram Vilas Paswan – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Ram Vilas Paswan" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_Vilas_Paswan" title="Ram Vilas Paswan – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Ram Vilas Paswan" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B8_%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A8" title="रामविलास पासवान – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="रामविलास पासवान" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_Vilas_Paswan" title="Ram Vilas Paswan – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Ram Vilas Paswan" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_Vilas_Paswan" title="Ram Vilas Paswan – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Ram Vilas Paswan" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mai mw-list-item"><a href="https://mai.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B8_%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A8" title="रामविलास पासवान – Maithili" lang="mai" hreflang="mai" data-title="रामविलास पासवान" data-language-autonym="मैथिली" data-language-local-name="Maithili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मैथिली</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%82_%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%B2%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%8D_%E0%B4%AA%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BE%E0%B5%BB" title="രാം വിലാസ് പാസ്വാൻ – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="രാം വിലാസ് പാസ്വാൻ" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>മലയാളം</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B8_%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A8" title="रामविलास पासवान – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="रामविलास पासवान" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" 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href="https://sat.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%B1%A8%E1%B1%9F%E1%B1%A2%E1%B1%B5%E1%B1%A4%E1%B1%9E%E1%B1%9F%E1%B1%A5_%E1%B1%AF%E1%B1%9F%E1%B1%A5%E1%B1%A3%E1%B1%9F%E1%B1%B1" title="ᱨᱟᱢᱵᱤᱞᱟᱥ ᱯᱟᱥᱣᱟᱱ – Santali" lang="sat" hreflang="sat" data-title="ᱨᱟᱢᱵᱤᱞᱟᱥ ᱯᱟᱥᱣᱟᱱ" data-language-autonym="ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ" data-language-local-name="Santali" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_Vilas_Paswan" title="Ram Vilas Paswan – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Ram Vilas Paswan" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_Vilas_Paswan" title="Ram Vilas Paswan – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Ram Vilas Paswan" data-language-autonym="Suomi" 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colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Consumer_Affairs,_Food_and_Public_Distribution" title="Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution">Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />26 May 2014 – 8 October 2020</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Prime Minister</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Narendra_Modi" title="Narendra Modi">Narendra Modi</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Sharad_Pawar" title="Sharad Pawar">Sharad Pawar</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Piyush_Goyal" title="Piyush Goyal">Piyush Goyal</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament_(India)" title="Member of Parliament (India)">Member of Parliament</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rajya_Sabha" title="Rajya Sabha">Rajya Sabha</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />28 June 2019 – 8 October 2020</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ravi_Shankar_Prasad" title="Ravi Shankar Prasad">Ravi Shankar Prasad</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Sushil_Kumar_Modi" title="Sushil Kumar Modi">Sushil Kumar Modi</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Constituency</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Bihar" title="Bihar">Bihar</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />July 2010<sup id="cite_ref-rajyasabha_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rajyasabha-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> – 2014</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" 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style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Prime Minister</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Manmohan_Singh" title="Manmohan Singh">Manmohan Singh</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Sunder_Lal_Patwa" title="Sunder Lal Patwa">Sunder Lal Patwa</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/M._K._Alagiri" title="M. K. Alagiri">M. K. Alagiri</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Mines_(India)" class="mw-redirect" title="Minister of Mines (India)">Minister of Mines</a><sup id="cite_ref-rajyasabha_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rajyasabha-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />1 September 2001 – 29 April 2002</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Prime Minister</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Atal_Bihari_Vajpayee" title="Atal Bihari Vajpayee">Atal Bihari Vajpayee</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Sunder Lal Patwa</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Uma_Bharti" title="Uma Bharti">Uma Bharti</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Communications_and_Information_Technology_(India)" class="mw-redirect" title="Minister of Communications and Information Technology (India)">Minister of Communications and Information Technology</a><sup id="cite_ref-rajyasabha_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rajyasabha-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />13 October 1999 – 1 September 2001</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Prime Minister</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Atal_Bihari_Vajpayee" title="Atal Bihari Vajpayee">Atal Bihari Vajpayee</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Atal_Bihari_Vajpayee" title="Atal Bihari Vajpayee">Atal Bihari Vajpayee</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Pramod_Mahajan" title="Pramod Mahajan">Pramod Mahajan</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Leader_of_the_House_(Lok_Sabha)" class="mw-redirect" title="Leader of the House (Lok Sabha)">Leader of House in Lok Sabha</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />4 June 1996 – 4 December 1997</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Prime Minister</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/H.D._Deve_Gowda" class="mw-redirect" title="H.D. Deve Gowda">H.D. Deve Gowda</a><br /><a href="/wiki/I.K._Gujral" class="mw-redirect" title="I.K. Gujral">I.K. 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Jaffer Sheriff</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Nitish_Kumar" title="Nitish Kumar">Nitish Kumar</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Labour_and_Welfare" class="mw-redirect" title="Minister of Labour and Welfare">Minister of Labour and Welfare</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />5 December 1989 – 10 November 1990</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Prime Minister</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Vishwanath_Pratap_Singh" class="mw-redirect" title="Vishwanath Pratap Singh">Vishwanath Pratap Singh</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Bindeshwari_Dubey" title="Bindeshwari Dubey">Bindeshwari Dubey</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/K._Chandrasekhar_Rao" class="mw-redirect" title="K. Chandrasekhar Rao">K. Chandrasekhar Rao</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament_(India)" title="Member of Parliament (India)">Member of Parliament</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lok_Sabha" title="Lok Sabha">Lok Sabha</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />2014–2019</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ram_Sundar_Das" title="Ram Sundar Das">Ram Sundar Das</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Pashupati_Kumar_Paras" title="Pashupati Kumar Paras">Pashupati Kumar Paras</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Constituency</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Hajipur_(Lok_Sabha_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hajipur (Lok Sabha constituency)">Hajipur</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />1996–2009</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ram_Sundar_Das" title="Ram Sundar Das">Ram Sundar Das</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ram_Sundar_Das" title="Ram Sundar Das">Ram Sundar Das</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Constituency</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Hajipur_(Lok_Sabha_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hajipur (Lok Sabha constituency)">Hajipur</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />1991–1996</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Dasai_Chowdhary" title="Dasai Chowdhary">Dasai Chowdhary</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Pitambar_Paswan" title="Pitambar Paswan">Pitambar Paswan</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Constituency</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Rosera_(Lok_Sabha_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Rosera (Lok Sabha constituency)">Rosera</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />1989–1991</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ram_Ratan_Ram" title="Ram Ratan Ram">Ram Ratan Ram</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ram_Sundar_Das" title="Ram Sundar Das">Ram Sundar Das</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Constituency</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Hajipur_(Lok_Sabha_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hajipur (Lok Sabha constituency)">Hajipur</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />1977–1984</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ramshekhar_Prasad_Singh" title="Ramshekhar Prasad Singh">Ramshekhar Prasad Singh</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ram_Ratan_Ram" title="Ram Ratan Ram">Ram Ratan Ram</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Constituency</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Hajipur_(Lok_Sabha_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hajipur (Lok Sabha constituency)">Hajipur</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Member_of_Legislative_Assembly_(India)" class="mw-redirect" title="Member of Legislative Assembly (India)">Member</a> of <a href="/wiki/Bihar_Legislative_Assembly" title="Bihar Legislative Assembly">Bihar Legislative Assembly</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />1969<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">1969</span>)</span>–1972<span style="display:none"> (<span class="dtend itvend">1972</span>)</span></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Mishri Sada</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Mishri Sada</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Constituency</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Alauli_Assembly_constituency" title="Alauli Assembly constituency">Alauli</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1946-07-05</span>)</span>5 July 1946<br /><a href="/wiki/Khagaria" title="Khagaria">Khagaria</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bihar_Province" title="Bihar Province">Bihar</a>, <a href="/wiki/British_India" class="mw-redirect" title="British India">British India</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">8 October 2020<span style="display:none">(2020-10-08)</span> (aged 74)<br /><a href="/wiki/New_Delhi" title="New Delhi">New Delhi</a>, <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Lok_Janshakti_Party" title="Lok Janshakti Party">Lok Janshakti Party</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Other political<br />affiliations</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Janata_Dal" title="Janata Dal">Janata Dal</a>, <a href="/wiki/Janata_Party" title="Janata Party">Janata Party</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouses</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style></li></ul> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;">Rajkumari Devi</div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1969; <abbr title="divorced">div.</abbr> 1981)<wbr /></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1151524712"></li></ul> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;">Reena Sharma</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1983⁠–⁠2020)<wbr /></div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">4; including <a href="/wiki/Chirag_Paswan" title="Chirag Paswan">Chirag Kumar Paswan</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Residence(s)</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Khagaria" title="Khagaria">Khagaria</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bihar" title="Bihar">Bihar</a>, <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Alma_mater" title="Alma mater">Alma mater</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Patna_University" title="Patna University">Patna University</a> (<a href="/wiki/Master_of_Arts" title="Master of Arts">M.A.</a>, <a href="/wiki/LLB" class="mw-redirect" title="LLB">LLB</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Awards</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Padma_Bhushan" title="Padma Bhushan">Padma Bhushan</a> (2021) (posthumously)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div>As of 30 May, 2019</div>Source: <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060619230245/http://164.100.24.208/ls/lsmember/biodata.asp?mpsno=296">[1]</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Ram Vilas Paswan</b> (5 July 1946 – 8 October 2020)<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was an <a href="/wiki/Indian_politician" class="mw-redirect" title="Indian politician">Indian politician</a> from <a href="/wiki/Bihar" title="Bihar">Bihar</a> and the Cabinet Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution in the <a href="/wiki/First_Modi_ministry" title="First Modi ministry">first</a> and <a href="/wiki/Second_Modi_ministry" title="Second Modi ministry">second</a> Modi ministries. Paswan was also the president of the <a href="/wiki/Lok_Janshakti_Party" title="Lok Janshakti Party">Lok Janshakti Party</a>, nine-times <a href="/wiki/Lok_Sabha" title="Lok Sabha">Lok Sabha</a> member and two-time <a href="/wiki/Rajya_Sabha" title="Rajya Sabha">Rajya Sabha</a> <a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament" class="mw-redirect" title="Member of Parliament">MP</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He started his political career as member of <a href="/wiki/Samyukta_Socialist_Party" title="Samyukta Socialist Party">Samyukta Socialist Party</a> and was elected to the <a href="/wiki/Bihar_Legislative_Assembly" title="Bihar Legislative Assembly">Bihar Legislative Assembly</a> in 1969. Later, Paswan joined <a href="/wiki/Lok_Dal" class="mw-redirect" title="Lok Dal">Lok Dal</a> upon its formation in 1974, and became its general secretary. He opposed the <a href="/wiki/Indian_Emergency" class="mw-redirect" title="Indian Emergency">emergency</a>, and was arrested during this period. He first entered the <a href="/wiki/Lok_Sabha" title="Lok Sabha">Lok Sabha</a> in 1977, as a <a href="/wiki/Janata_Party" title="Janata Party">Janata Party</a> member from <a href="/wiki/Hajipur_(Lok_Sabha_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hajipur (Lok Sabha constituency)">Hajipur</a> constituency, and was elected again in 1980, 1989, 1991 (from Rosera), 1996, 1998, 1999, 2004 and 2014.<sup id="cite_ref-Ram_Vilas_Paswan_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ram_Vilas_Paswan-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:0_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2000, Paswan formed the <a href="/wiki/Lok_Janshakti_Party" title="Lok Janshakti Party">Lok Janshakti Party</a> (LJP) as its president. Subsequently, in 2004, he joined the ruling <a href="/wiki/United_Progressive_Alliance" title="United Progressive Alliance">United Progressive Alliance</a> government and remained a Union Minister in <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Chemicals_and_Fertilizers_(India)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers (India)">Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Steel_(India)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ministry of Steel (India)">Ministry of Steel</a>. He was posthumously awarded India's third highest civilian award the <a href="/wiki/Padma_Bhushan" title="Padma Bhushan">Padma Bhushan</a> in 2021.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Known for holding cabinet positions under 7 governments, Paswan was known as the weatherman of Indian politics.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As of 2024, he is the <a href="/wiki/List_of_longest-serving_members_of_the_Union_Council_of_Ministers" title="List of longest-serving members of the Union Council of Ministers">longest-serving</a> Union minister who was not a member of the <a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">Indian National Congress</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ram_Vilas_Paswan&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Paswan was born in a <a href="/wiki/Dusadh" class="mw-redirect" title="Dusadh">Dusadh</a> family on 5 July 1946 in Shaharbanni, <a href="/wiki/Khagaria_district" title="Khagaria district">Khagaria district</a> of <a href="/wiki/Bihar" title="Bihar">Bihar</a> to Jamun Paswan and Siya Devi.<sup id="cite_ref-LSProfile_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LSProfile-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Paswan held <a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Laws" title="Bachelor of Laws">Bachelor of Laws</a> and <a href="/wiki/Master_of_Arts" title="Master of Arts">Master of Arts</a> degrees from Kosi College, Khagaria and <a href="/wiki/Patna_University" title="Patna University">Patna University</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He had been selected as a <a href="/wiki/Deputy_superintendent_of_police#India" title="Deputy superintendent of police">DSP</a> in <a href="/wiki/Bihar_Police" title="Bihar Police">Bihar Police</a> in 1969.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Political_career">Political career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ram_Vilas_Paswan&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Political career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Shri_Ram_Vilas_Paswan_in_his_office_after_taking_over_the_charge_as_the_Union_Minister_of_Chemicals_%26_Fertilizers_in_New_Delhi_on_May_24,_2004.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Shri_Ram_Vilas_Paswan_in_his_office_after_taking_over_the_charge_as_the_Union_Minister_of_Chemicals_%26_Fertilizers_in_New_Delhi_on_May_24%2C_2004.jpg/220px-Shri_Ram_Vilas_Paswan_in_his_office_after_taking_over_the_charge_as_the_Union_Minister_of_Chemicals_%26_Fertilizers_in_New_Delhi_on_May_24%2C_2004.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="144" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Shri_Ram_Vilas_Paswan_in_his_office_after_taking_over_the_charge_as_the_Union_Minister_of_Chemicals_%26_Fertilizers_in_New_Delhi_on_May_24%2C_2004.jpg/330px-Shri_Ram_Vilas_Paswan_in_his_office_after_taking_over_the_charge_as_the_Union_Minister_of_Chemicals_%26_Fertilizers_in_New_Delhi_on_May_24%2C_2004.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Shri_Ram_Vilas_Paswan_in_his_office_after_taking_over_the_charge_as_the_Union_Minister_of_Chemicals_%26_Fertilizers_in_New_Delhi_on_May_24%2C_2004.jpg/440px-Shri_Ram_Vilas_Paswan_in_his_office_after_taking_over_the_charge_as_the_Union_Minister_of_Chemicals_%26_Fertilizers_in_New_Delhi_on_May_24%2C_2004.jpg 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="591" /></a><figcaption>Ram Vilas Paswan in his office after taking charge as the Union Minister of Chemicals & Fertilizers in New Delhi on 24 May 2004</figcaption></figure> <p>Paswan was elected to the Bihar state legislative assembly in 1969<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as a member of the <a href="/wiki/Samyukta_Socialist_Party" title="Samyukta Socialist Party">Samyukta Socialist Party</a> (<i>"United Socialist Party"</i>) from <a href="/wiki/Alauli_(Vidhan_Sabha_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Alauli (Vidhan Sabha constituency)">Alauli</a>, a reserved constituency. He lost 1972 Vidhan Sabha election from Alauli to Shri Mishri Sada of Congress.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1974, as an ardent follower of <a href="/wiki/Raj_Narain" title="Raj Narain">Raj Narain</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jayaprakash_Narayan" title="Jayaprakash Narayan">Jayaprakash Narayan</a> Paswan became the general secretary of the <a href="/wiki/Lok_Dal" class="mw-redirect" title="Lok Dal">Lok Dal</a>. He was personally close to the prominent leaders of anti-emergency like <a href="/wiki/Raj_Narain" title="Raj Narain">Raj Narain</a>, <a href="/wiki/Karpoori_Thakur" title="Karpoori Thakur">Karpoori Thakur</a> and <a href="/wiki/Satyendra_Narayan_Sinha" title="Satyendra Narayan Sinha">Satyendra Narayan Sinha</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1975, when <a href="/wiki/Indian_Emergency" class="mw-redirect" title="Indian Emergency">emergency</a> was proclaimed in India, Paswan was arrested and spent the entire period in jail. On being released in 1977, he became a member of the <a href="/wiki/Janata_Party" title="Janata Party">Janata Party</a><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and won election to <a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_India" title="Parliament of India">Parliament</a> for the first time on its ticket from <a href="/wiki/Hajipur_(Lok_Sabha_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hajipur (Lok Sabha constituency)">Hajipur</a> with a record margin (later broken) of 424,000 and 89.3% votes which is perhaps an all-time record for general election in India. Former PM Narasimha Rao got a higher percentage of vote in a 1991 bye-poll. When Janata Party split in 1979, he joined Charan Singh's faction. Paswan was re-elected to the 7th <a href="/wiki/Lok_Sabha" title="Lok Sabha">Lok Sabha</a> in 1980 from Hajipur constituency as Janata Party (Socialist) candidate. In 1983, he established the Dalit Sena, an organisation for <a href="/wiki/Dalit_(outcaste)" class="mw-redirect" title="Dalit (outcaste)">Dalit</a> emancipation and welfare. The Dalit Sena was later headed by his brother <a href="/wiki/Ram_Chandra_Paswan" title="Ram Chandra Paswan">Ram Chandra Paswan</a>. Later it was renamed as <a href="/wiki/Scheduled_Caste" class="mw-redirect" title="Scheduled Caste">Scheduled Caste</a> sena in a vein similar to the Scheduled Caste federation established by <a href="/wiki/Bhim_Rao_Ambedkar" class="mw-redirect" title="Bhim Rao Ambedkar">Bhim Rao Ambedkar</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Paswan lost 1984 Lok Sabha election from Hajipur.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Paswan was elected to the 9th Lok Sabha in 1989 and was appointed Union Minister of Labour and Welfare in the <a href="/wiki/Vishwanath_Pratap_Singh" class="mw-redirect" title="Vishwanath Pratap Singh">Vishwanath Pratap Singh</a> government.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was elected to Lok Sabha from <a href="/wiki/Rosera_(Lok_Sabha_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Rosera (Lok Sabha constituency)">Rosera (Lok Sabha constituency)</a> in 1991, the only time between 1977 and 2014 when he did not contest from Hajipur. In 1996, he won again from Hajipur, and he even led the ruling alliance or proposition in the Lok Sabha as the <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_India" title="Prime Minister of India">prime minister</a> was a member of the <a href="/wiki/Rajya_Sabha" title="Rajya Sabha">Rajya Sabha</a>. This was also the year when Paswan first became the Union Railway Minister. He continued to hold that post till 1998.<sup id="cite_ref-Nair_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Nair-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Thereafter, Paswan was the Union <a href="/wiki/Telecommunication" class="mw-redirect" title="Telecommunication">Communications</a> Minister from October 1999 to September 2001 when he was shifted to the Coal Ministry, the portfolio he held till April 2002.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2000, Paswan broke from the <a href="/wiki/Janata_Dal_(United)" title="Janata Dal (United)">Janata Dal</a>, to form the <a href="/wiki/Lok_Janshakti_Party" title="Lok Janshakti Party">Lok Janshakti Party</a> (LJP). He resigned as minister and left the ruling NDA in 2002 after developing differences with BJP. Following the <a href="/wiki/2004_Lok_Sabha_elections" class="mw-redirect" title="2004 Lok Sabha elections">2004 Lok Sabha elections</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Nair_21-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Nair-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Paswan joined the United Progressive Alliance government and was made the Union Minister in <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Chemicals_and_Fertilizers_(India)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers (India)">Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Steel_(India)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ministry of Steel (India)">Ministry of Steel</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Prime_Minister,_Shri_Narendra_Modi_visiting_the_Bihar_Museum,_in_Patna.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/The_Prime_Minister%2C_Shri_Narendra_Modi_visiting_the_Bihar_Museum%2C_in_Patna.jpg/220px-The_Prime_Minister%2C_Shri_Narendra_Modi_visiting_the_Bihar_Museum%2C_in_Patna.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="143" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/The_Prime_Minister%2C_Shri_Narendra_Modi_visiting_the_Bihar_Museum%2C_in_Patna.jpg/330px-The_Prime_Minister%2C_Shri_Narendra_Modi_visiting_the_Bihar_Museum%2C_in_Patna.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/The_Prime_Minister%2C_Shri_Narendra_Modi_visiting_the_Bihar_Museum%2C_in_Patna.jpg/440px-The_Prime_Minister%2C_Shri_Narendra_Modi_visiting_the_Bihar_Museum%2C_in_Patna.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2200" data-file-height="1426" /></a><figcaption>Ramvilas Paswan (extreme left), with <a href="/wiki/Nitish_Kumar" title="Nitish Kumar">Nitish Kumar</a> (centre) and <a href="/wiki/Narendra_Modi" title="Narendra Modi">Narendra Modi</a>, inspecting the inaugural of Bihar Museum.</figcaption></figure> <p>In the February 2005 Bihar State elections, Paswan's party LJP along with the Indian National Congress contested the election. The result was that no particular party or alliance could form a government by itself. However, Paswan consistently refused to support either Lalu Prasad Yadav, whom he accused of being extremely corrupt, or the right-wing <a href="/wiki/National_Democratic_Alliance_(India)" class="mw-redirect" title="National Democratic Alliance (India)">National Democratic Alliance</a> thereby creating a stalemate.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This stalemate was broken when Nitish Kumar succeeded in persuading 12 members of Paswan's party to defect; to prevent the formation of a government supported by LJP defectors, the Governor of Bihar, <a href="/wiki/Buta_Singh" title="Buta Singh">Buta Singh</a> dissolved the state legislature and called for fresh elections, keeping Bihar under <a href="/wiki/President%27s_Rule" class="mw-redirect" title="President's Rule">President's Rule</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the November 2005 Bihar state elections, Paswan's third-alliance was utterly devastated; the Laloo Yadav-Congress alliance reduced to a minority and the NDA formed the new government.<sup id="cite_ref-zeenews.india.com_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-zeenews.india.com-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Paswan has declared that the Bihar state elections have no influence on the <a href="/wiki/Government_of_India" title="Government of India">Central Government</a>, which will continue with both him and Laloo Yadav as ministers. Paswan has served as a Union Minister under five different Prime Ministers and continuously held a cabinet berth in all the <a href="/wiki/Council_of_Ministers_of_the_Republic_of_India" class="mw-redirect" title="Council of Ministers of the Republic of India">Council of Ministers</a> formed since 1996 (as of 2015). He was also part of all the national coalitions (the <a href="/wiki/United_Front_(India,_1996)" title="United Front (India, 1996)">United Front</a>, the National Democratic Alliance and the United Progressive Alliance), which have formed the Indian Government from 1996 to 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2009_Indian_general_election">2009 Indian general election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ram_Vilas_Paswan&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: 2009 Indian general election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>For the <a href="/wiki/2009_Indian_general_election" title="2009 Indian general election">2009 Indian general election</a> Paswan forged an alliance with Lalu Prasad Yadav and his <a href="/wiki/Rashtriya_Janata_Dal" title="Rashtriya Janata Dal">Rashtriya Janata Dal</a>, while dumping their erstwhile coalition partner and leader of the United Progressive Alliance, the <a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">Indian National Congress</a> from the new alliance. The duo was later joined by <a href="/wiki/Mulayam_Singh" class="mw-redirect" title="Mulayam Singh">Mulayam Singh</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Samajwadi_Party" title="Samajwadi Party">Samajwadi Party</a> and were declared the Fourth Front.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Paswan lost the elections from <a href="/wiki/Hajipur" title="Hajipur">Hajipur</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Janata_Dal_(United)" title="Janata Dal (United)">Janata Dal</a>'s Ram Sundar Das, a former <a href="/wiki/Chief_minister" title="Chief minister">chief minister</a> of <a href="/wiki/Bihar" title="Bihar">Bihar</a> for the first time in 33 years.<sup id="cite_ref-Ram_Vilas_Paswan_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ram_Vilas_Paswan-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His party the <a href="/wiki/Lok_Janshakti_Party" title="Lok Janshakti Party">Lok Janshakti Party</a> was not able to win any seats in the <a href="/wiki/15th_Lok_Sabha" title="15th Lok Sabha">15th Lok Sabha</a>, while his coalition partner Yadav and his party too failed to perform well and were reduced to 4 seats.<sup id="cite_ref-zeenews.india.com_26-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-zeenews.india.com-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2010_assembly_election">2010 assembly election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ram_Vilas_Paswan&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: 2010 assembly election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:2010Ljp.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/2010Ljp.jpg/220px-2010Ljp.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="181" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/2010Ljp.jpg/330px-2010Ljp.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/2010Ljp.jpg/440px-2010Ljp.jpg 2x" data-file-width="619" data-file-height="509" /></a><figcaption>Paswan sitting with <a href="/wiki/Lok_Janshakti_Party" title="Lok Janshakti Party">L.J.P.</a> candidate <a href="/wiki/Kapildev_Prasad_Singh" title="Kapildev Prasad Singh">Kapildev Singh</a> from <a href="/wiki/Asthawan_Assembly_constituency" title="Asthawan Assembly constituency">Asthawan</a> in <a href="/wiki/Nalanda" class="mw-redirect" title="Nalanda">Nalanda</a> during 2010 Bihar elections</figcaption></figure> <p>Before the assembly elections to be held in 2010, Paswan was elected to the Rajya Sabha from the assembly, Ram Vilas Paswan and <a href="/wiki/Lalu_Prasad_Yadav" title="Lalu Prasad Yadav">Lalu</a> fought the <a href="/wiki/2010_Bihar_Legislative_Assembly_election" title="2010 Bihar Legislative Assembly election">2010 Bihar election</a> together and also claimed to form the government in Bihar with two-thirds majority. They termed the <a href="/wiki/Nitish_Kumar" title="Nitish Kumar">Nitish</a> <a href="/wiki/Bhartiya_Janata_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Bhartiya Janata Party">B.J.P.</a> government that has been running for 5 years as ineffective and accused <a href="/wiki/Nitish_Kumar" title="Nitish Kumar">Nitish</a> of taking <a href="/wiki/Bihar" title="Bihar">Bihar</a> into trouble. The work of taking has been done due to which <a href="/wiki/Bihar" title="Bihar">Bihar</a> has lagged further behind. Accusing the <a href="/wiki/National_Democratic_Alliance" title="National Democratic Alliance">N.D.A.</a>, he said that 30 percent of the voters in Bihar are fake and the <a href="/wiki/Government_of_Bihar" title="Government of Bihar">government</a> is also behind this.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Lalu_Prasad_Yadav" title="Lalu Prasad Yadav">Lalu's</a> party <a href="/wiki/Rashtriya_Janata_Dal" title="Rashtriya Janata Dal">RJD</a> and Ram Vilas had fought this election together in alliance, in which <a href="/wiki/Lok_Janshakti_Party" title="Lok Janshakti Party">L.J.P.</a> fielded its candidates on 75 seats, while only 3 candidates could win, and could not even save the deposit on many seats. This performance of the party was less than the last election of <a href="/w/index.php?title=2005_Bihar_Legislative_Assembly_election&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="2005 Bihar Legislative Assembly election (page does not exist)">2005 Bihar election</a>. The condition of the alliance was such that only 22 candidates could win for RJD. Seeing such poor performance of the party, Paswan and Lalu's Dalit, Muslim and backward politics took a new dimension.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2014_Indian_general_election">2014 Indian general election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ram_Vilas_Paswan&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: 2014 Indian general election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Paswan was elected as member of <a href="/wiki/16th_Lok_Sabha" title="16th Lok Sabha">16th Lok Sabha</a> after the <a href="/wiki/2014_Indian_general_election" title="2014 Indian general election">2014 Indian general election</a> from <a href="/wiki/Hajipur_(Lok_Sabha_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hajipur (Lok Sabha constituency)">Hajipur</a> constituency when he contested in alliance with BJP, while his son Chirag Paswan won from <a href="/wiki/Jamui_(Lok_Sabha_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Jamui (Lok Sabha constituency)">Jamui</a> constituency also in Bihar.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Paswan was again given charge of the <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Consumer_Affairs,_Food_and_Public_Distribution" title="Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution">Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution</a> in May 2014, which continued in <a href="/wiki/Second_Modi_ministry" title="Second Modi ministry">Second Modi ministry</a> in 2019.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was elected to Rajya Sabha in 2019 with the help of BJP though his own party had only 2 MLAs in the state assembly. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ram_Vilas_Paswan&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Paswan married Rajkumari Devi in the 1960s. In 2014, he disclosed that he had divorced her in 1981, after his <a href="/wiki/Lok_Sabha" title="Lok Sabha">Lok Sabha</a> nomination papers were challenged.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-bp_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bp-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Paswan had two daughters from first wife, Usha and Asha.<sup id="cite_ref-bp_38-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bp-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1983, he married Reena Sharma, an air hostess.<sup id="cite_ref-LSProfile_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LSProfile-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They had a son and a daughter. His son <a href="/wiki/Chirag_Paswan" title="Chirag Paswan">Chirag Kumar Paswan</a> is an actor-turned-politician.<sup id="cite_ref-bp_38-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bp-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He was often called a dynast. He brought his brothers <a href="/wiki/Pashupati_Kumar_Paras" title="Pashupati Kumar Paras">Pashupati Kumar Paras</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ram_Chandra_Paswan" title="Ram Chandra Paswan">Ram Chandra Paswan</a> into politics. Of the six seats that the LJP won in 2019, three were from his family – son Chirag, and brothers Pashupati Kumar Paras and Ram Chandra Paswan. Ram Chandra's son <a href="/wiki/Prince_Raj" title="Prince Raj">Prince Raj</a> succeeded his father upon his death.<sup id="cite_ref-Nair_21-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Nair-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Death">Death</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ram_Vilas_Paswan&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Paswan died on 8 October 2020, and his death was confirmed by his son, Chirag Paswan.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Paswan had undergone <a href="/wiki/Cardiac_surgery" title="Cardiac surgery">heart surgery</a> and was hospitalised for a few weeks prior to his death.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Paswan was cremated in Patna on 10 October 2020. His body was brought to Janardan Ghat in the Digha locality from his residence in Shri Krishna Puri, about 3 km away, for the last rites.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Politicians_campaing_in_Mumbai_-_Flickr_-_Al_Jazeera_English.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Politicians_campaing_in_Mumbai_-_Flickr_-_Al_Jazeera_English.jpg/220px-Politicians_campaing_in_Mumbai_-_Flickr_-_Al_Jazeera_English.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="140" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Politicians_campaing_in_Mumbai_-_Flickr_-_Al_Jazeera_English.jpg/330px-Politicians_campaing_in_Mumbai_-_Flickr_-_Al_Jazeera_English.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Politicians_campaing_in_Mumbai_-_Flickr_-_Al_Jazeera_English.jpg/440px-Politicians_campaing_in_Mumbai_-_Flickr_-_Al_Jazeera_English.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2609" data-file-height="1656" /></a><figcaption>Paswan together with <a href="/wiki/Lalu_Prasad_Yadav" title="Lalu Prasad Yadav">Lalu Prasad Yadav</a> (center) and <a href="/wiki/Amar_Singh_(Uttar_Pradesh_politician)" title="Amar Singh (Uttar Pradesh politician)">Amar Singh</a> (left) at a party rally in <a href="/wiki/Mumbai" title="Mumbai">Mumbai</a> during the <a href="/wiki/2009_Indian_general_election" title="2009 Indian general election">2009 general elections</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi went to Paswan's Delhi residence to pay homage to him. 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of Parliament<br />for Hajipur </b><br />1977 – 1984 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Ram_Ratan_Ram" title="Ram Ratan Ram">Ram Ratan Ram</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold">Ram Ratan Ram</div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> Member of Parliament<br />for Hajipur </b><br />1989 – 1991 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Ram_Sundar_Das" title="Ram Sundar Das">Ram Sundar Das</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Dasai_Chowdhary" title="Dasai Chowdhary">Dasai Chowdhary</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> Member of Parliament<br />for <a href="/wiki/Rosera_(Lok_Sabha_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Rosera (Lok Sabha constituency)">Rosera</a> </b><br />1991 – 1996 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Pitambar_Paswan" title="Pitambar Paswan">Pitambar Paswan</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold">Ram Sundar Das</div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> Member of Parliament<br />for Hajipur </b><br />1996 – 2009 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold">Ram Sundar Das</div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold">Ram Sundar Das</div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> Member of Parliament<br />for Hajipur </b><br />2014 – 2019 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Pashupati_Kumar_Paras" title="Pashupati Kumar Paras">Pashupati Kumar Paras</a></div> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="border-top: 5px solid #ccccff;">Political offices </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/C._K._Jaffer_Sharief" title="C. K. Jaffer Sharief">C. K. Jaffer Sharief</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Railways_(India)" title="Minister of Railways (India)">Minister of Railways</a> </b><br />1 June 1996 – 19 March 1998 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Nitish_Kumar" title="Nitish Kumar">Nitish Kumar</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Atal_Bihari_Vajpayee" title="Atal Bihari Vajpayee">Atal Bihari Vajpayee</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Communications_and_Information_Technology_(India)" class="mw-redirect" title="Minister of Communications and Information Technology (India)">Minister of Communications and Information Technology</a> </b><br />13 October 1999 – 1 September 2001 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Pramod_Mahajan" title="Pramod Mahajan">Pramod Mahajan</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold">Sunder Lal Patwa</div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Mines_(India)" class="mw-redirect" title="Minister of Mines (India)">Minister of Mines</a> </b><br />1 September 2001 – 29 April 2002 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Uma_Bharti" title="Uma Bharti">Uma Bharti</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold">Sunder Lal Patwa</div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Chemicals_and_Fertilizers" title="Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers">Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers</a> </b><br />23 May 2004 – 22 May 2009 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/M._K._Alagiri" title="M. 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Thomas</a><br />Minister of State (Independent Charge)</div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Consumer_Affairs,_Food_and_Public_Distribution" title="Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution">Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution</a> </b><br />26 May 2014 – 8 October 2020 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Piyush_Goyal" title="Piyush Goyal">Piyush Goyal</a></div> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="border-top: 5px solid #FFBF00;">Party political offices </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold">Vacant</div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> Leader of the <a href="/wiki/Lok_Jan_Shakti_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Lok Jan Shakti Party">Lok Jan Shakti Party</a> in the Lok Sabha </b><br />2014 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href="/wiki/Central_Institute_of_Plastics_Engineering_%26_Technology,_Khunti" title="Central Institute of Plastics Engineering & Technology, Khunti">Khunti</a></li> <li>Ahmedabad</li> <li>Amritsar</li> <li>Aurangabad</li> <li>Bhopal</li> <li>Guwahati</li> <li>Hyderabad</li> <li>Haldia</li> <li>Jaipur</li> <li>Imphal</li> <li>Lucknow</li> <li>Mysore</li> <li>Panipat</li> <li>Madurai</li> <li>Raipur</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Projects</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Bulk Drug Parks</li> <li>Medical Devices Parks</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tamil_Nadu_PCPIR" title="Tamil Nadu PCPIR">Tamil Nadu PCPIR</a></li> <li>Talcher Fertilizer LTD</li> <li>Ramagundam Fertilizers And Chemicals Limited</li> <li>Hindustan Urvarak & Rasayan LTD</li> <li>Paradeep Plastic Park</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">PSUs</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bengal_Chemicals_and_Pharmaceuticals" class="mw-redirect" title="Bengal Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals">Bengal Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals Limited</a> (BCPL)</li> <li>Bramhaputra Valley Fertiliser Corporation Limited (BVFCL)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/FCI_Aravali_Gypsum_and_Minerals_(India)_Limited" class="mw-redirect" title="FCI Aravali Gypsum and Minerals (India) Limited">FCI Aravali Gypsum and Minerals (India) Limited</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fertilisers_and_Chemicals_Travancore" title="Fertilisers and Chemicals Travancore">Fertilisers and Chemicals Travancore Limited</a> (FACT)</li> <li>Fertiliser Association of India (FAI)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fertilizer_Corporation_of_India" class="mw-redirect" title="Fertilizer Corporation of India">Fertilizer Corporation of India</a> (FCIL)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hindustan_Antibiotics" class="mw-redirect" title="Hindustan Antibiotics">Hindustan Antibiotics Limited</a> (HAL)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hindustan_Insecticides" class="mw-redirect" title="Hindustan Insecticides">Hindustan Insecticides Limited</a> (HIL)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hindustan_Organic_Chemicals_Limited" title="Hindustan Organic Chemicals Limited">Hindustan Organic Chemicals Limited</a> (HOCL)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madras_Fertilizers" class="mw-redirect" title="Madras Fertilizers">Madras Fertilizers Limited</a> (MFL)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Fertilizers" title="National Fertilizers">National Fertilisers Limited</a> (NFL)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Projects_and_Development_India_Limited" title="Projects and Development India Limited">Projects and Development India Limited</a> (PDIL)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rashtriya_Chemicals_%26_Fertilizers" class="mw-redirect" title="Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers">Rashtriya Chemicals and Fertilisers Limited</a> (RCF)</li> <li>Bramhaputra Cracker and Polymer Limited (BCPL)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gujarat_State_Fertilizers_and_Chemicals" title="Gujarat State Fertilizers and Chemicals">Gujarat State Fertilizers and Chemicals Limited</a> (GSFC)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indian_Farmers_Fertiliser_Cooperative" title="Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative">Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative</a> (IFFCO)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Krishak_Bharati_Cooperative" class="mw-redirect" title="Krishak Bharati Cooperative">Krishak Bharati Cooperative Limited</a> (KRIBHCO)</li> <li>Karnataka Antibiotics & Pharmaceuticals Ltd</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Secretaries</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>S Aparna <span style="font-size:85%;">(incumbent)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Ministers</th><td 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V. Doshi">B. V. Doshi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Krishnammal_Jagannathan" title="Krishnammal Jagannathan">Krishnammal Jagannathan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._C._Jamir" title="S. C. Jamir">S. C. Jamir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anil_Prakash_Joshi" title="Anil Prakash Joshi">Anil Prakash Joshi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tsering_Landol" title="Tsering Landol">Tsering Landol</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anand_Mahindra" title="Anand Mahindra">Anand Mahindra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/N._R._Madhava_Menon" title="N. R. Madhava Menon">N. R. Madhava Menon</a><sup>#</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sri_Madhukarnath" class="mw-redirect" title="Sri Madhukarnath">Sri Madhukarnath</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manohar_Parrikar" title="Manohar Parrikar">Manohar Parrikar</a><sup>#</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jagdish_Sheth" title="Jagdish Sheth">Jagdish Sheth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/P._V._Sindhu" title="P. V. Sindhu">P. V. 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Bhyrappa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deepak_Dhar" title="Deepak Dhar">Deepak Dhar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vani_Jairam" title="Vani Jairam">Vani Jairam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chinna_Jeeyar" title="Chinna Jeeyar">Chinna Jeeyar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Suman_Kalyanpur" title="Suman Kalyanpur">Suman Kalyanpur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kapil_Kapoor" title="Kapil Kapoor">Kapil Kapoor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sudha_Murty" title="Sudha Murty">Sudha Murty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kamlesh_Patel_(Daaji)" title="Kamlesh Patel (Daaji)">Kamlesh D Patel</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2024</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fathima_Beevi" title="Fathima Beevi">Fathima Beevi</a><sup>#</sup></li> <li>Hormusji N. 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