Ram Vilas Paswan was an Indian politician from Bihar. He was the Cabinet Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution in the first and second Modi ministries. He started his political career as member of Samyukta Socialist Party and was elected to the Bihar Legislative Assembly in 1969.
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Ram Vilas Paswan was an Indian politician from Bihar. He was the Cabinet Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution in the first and second Modi ministries. He started his political career as member of Samyukta Socialist Party and was elected to the Bihar Legislative Assembly in 1969. Paswan joined Lok Dal upon its formation in 1974, and became its general secretary. He opposed the emergency, and was arrested during this period. He first entered the Lok Sabha in 1977, as a Janata Party member from Hajipur constituency. In 2000, Paswan formed the Lok Janshakti Party as its president. In 2004, he joined the ruling United Progressive Alliance government and remained a Union Minister in Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers and Ministry of Steel.
He won the 2004 Lok Sabha elections, but lost the 2009 elections. After being a member of a Rajya Sabha member from 2010 to 2014, he was elected again to the 16th Lok Sabha in the 2014 Indian general election from Hajipsar constituency. He is expected to be elected to Rajya Parliament in 2019. He died in a car crash in Bihar in 2011, aged 69. He had a Bachelor of Laws and a Master of Arts degrees from Kosi College, Khagaria and Patna University. His brother Ram Chandra Paswan is also a politician and a former member of the Bihar state legislative assembly. He has a son, Ram Chandra, who is a former Member of Parliament from Bihar, and a son-in-law, Ravi Agrawal, who served as a Member of the Supreme Court of India.
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