Jai Narain Prasad Nishad (18 November 1930 – 24 December 2018) was an Indian politician and

member of parliament A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members o ...

from Muzaffarpur Lok Sabha Constituency in the Indian State of

Bihar Bihar (; ) is a state in eastern India. It is the 2nd largest state by population in 2019, 12th largest by area of , and 14th largest by GDP in 2021. Bihar borders Uttar Pradesh to its west, Nepal to the north, the northern part of West ...

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/ref> He was a Union Minister for State in 1996-1998 and has been a member of

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five times and a former member of

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Janata Dal (United) Janata Dal (United) ("People’s Party (United)”) abbreviated as JD(U) is an Indian political party with political presence mainly in eastern and north-eastern India. JD(U) is recognised as a state party in the states of Bihar , Arunachal Pr ...

and with the

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. His son,

Ajay Nishad Ajay Nishad is an Indian politician and the current member of parliament from Muzaffarpur. He won the 2014 and the 2019 general election being a Bharatiya Janata Party candidate. He is the son of former Minister Jai Narain Prasad Nishad. Nisha ...

is the MP of Muzaffarpur.

Disqualified from parliament

Nishad was a member of

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when he was disqualified as a member of Rajya Sabha in April 2008 under the Anti-defection Law by the Vice President of India who is also the chairman of Rajya Sabha for switching sides. He was removed as a member of Rajya Sabha. He changed to five political parties fifteen times but got elected from the same seat five times.MP Jai Narain Prasad roots for Narendra Modi as India's next PM - India - DNA
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