Jay Prakash Gupta

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jay Prakash Gupta
जय प्रकाश गुप्ता
Minister of Information and Communication
In office
4 September 2011 – 21 February 2012
PresidentRam Baran Yadav
Prime MinisterBabu Ram Bhattarai
Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperative
In office
18 August 2008 – 25 May 2009
PresidentRam Baran Yadav
Prime MinisterPuspa Kamal Dahal
Personal details
BornSaptari, Nepal
NationalityNepalese
Political party (Ta.Ma.Ra)
Other political
affiliations		Madheshi Janadhikar Forum (Republican) (till 2012)
Madheshi Janaadhikar Forum, Nepal (2008–2009)
Nepali Congress (?–2008)

Jay Prakash Gupta (Nepali: जय प्रकाश गुप्ता), also referred to as Jay Prakash Anand or popularly JP Gupta, is a Nepalese politician and former member of the Madhesi Jana Adhikar Forum, Nepal(Republican) party. He was born in Saptari District, Nepal. Before joining forum, he was a member of Nepali Congress. His political career was going very well from this party but he left the party during Madhesh movement. He is presently running Terai Madhesh Rastriya Abhiyan.[1][2]

Political career[]

Gupta, once an influential leader of a time in Nepali Congress left the party claiming the party was not seriously listening to voice and demand of madhesh during the Madhesh Movement. He was not the alone to do so. Infleuential leaders including Mahantha Thakur, Bijay Kumar Gachhadar and Sarad Singh Bhandari had also left the party with similar voice. After this, he joined Madheshi Janadhikar Forum. Due to difference in political vision, the party was divided and hence Gupta joined Madheshi Janadhikar Forum(Republican).[3][4]

Gupta had won 1994 and 1999 election from Saptari-1 from Nepali Congress ticket and was once an influential leader of the party and area. In 2008, he won in the First Constituent Assembly Election and became a CA member. Following this, he became Minister for Agriculture and Cooperatives in the first Dahal Cabinet as a part of agreement between forum and CPN(Maoist).[5]

He had previously been sworn five times as Minister between 2054 and 2059, once as state minister and four times as cabinet minister as Minister for Communication and Information.[6] While he was in Baburam Bhattarai cabinet, he was proven accused in the case of abuse of authority and had to stay in jail for 18 months.[7][8] This is the single case in Nepal when a sitting minister was jailed. At various point of time, he said it was as per a plan to destroy his political career by some people who were unhappy with his steps and were jealous of his achievements.After about 13 months of life in prison, he got released on 21 February 2012.[9]

Presently, he seems to be away from active politics but he is active in his political mission of his own and keeps on visiting villages, knowing experiences and problems of people. He is presently running Terai Madhesh Rastriya Abhiyan. He's not seen much publicly these days and specially after 2015.[10] He was expected to contest elections from his own party but he didn't in 2017 and it still remains controversial why he is so silent.[1][11]

Published books[]

"अख्तियारको थुना"(English-Akhtiyako thuna) by Jay Prakash Gupta[12]

Electoral history[]

Except the 1991 election, Gupta remained victorious in every election he gave candidacy. Still he couldn't contest 2013 elections as he was in jail. On the other-hand, surprisingly he even didn't contest 2017 election though he was expected to contest.[11]

Election in 2000s[]

2008 Constituent Assembly election[]

Saptari-2
Party Candidate Votes
Madhesi Jana Adhikar Forum, Nepal Jay Prakash Prasad Gupta 8,515
Terai Madhesh Loktantrik Party Bijay Kumar Yadav 5,765
Sadbhavana Party Madhuri Mandal 5,384
CPN (Maoist) Ashok Kumar Mandal 4,119
Nepali Congress Dev Narayan Mandal 3,789
CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist) Jag Dev Yadav 2,922
Dalit Janajati Party Raj Kishor Khang 1,821
Rastriya Janata Dal Nepal Dev Narayan Mukhiya 1,660
Nepal Sadbhavana Party (Anandidevi) Bikas Kumar Tiwari 1,036
Others 3,629
Invalid votes 3,963
Result MJFN gain
Source: Election Commission[13]

Election in the 1990s[]

1999 legislative elections[]

Saptari-1
Party Candidate Votes
Nepali Congress Jay Prakash Anand 15,083
CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist) Hira Lal Chaudhary 13,853
Nepal Sadbhawana Party Mamata Jha 7,178
CPN (Marxist–Leninist) Jagadish Prasad Yadav 5,820
Independent Shrawan Kumar Bista 3,793
Rastriya Prajatantra Party Guru Sharan Rohita 2,476
Others 1,385
Invalid Votes 1,899
Result Congress hold
Source: Election Commission[14][15]

1994 legislative elections[]

Saptari-1
Party Candidate Votes
Nepali Congress Jay Prakash Anand 18,006
CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist) Hira Lal Chaudhary 13,885
Rastriya Prajatantra Party Devendra Jha 6,200
Nepal Sadbhawana Party Muralidhar Yadav 3,204
Others 1,687
Result Congress gain
Source: Election Commission[14]

1991 legislative elections[]

Saptari-1
Party Candidate Votes
CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist) Hira Lal Chaudhary 13,973
Nepali Congress Jay Prakash Anand 12,050
Result CPN (UML) gain
Source: [1]

References[]

  1. ^ a b साह, बीपी (2016-02-11). "उपेन्द्रले नमान्दा मातृका र जेपी मोर्चाबाट 'आउट'". Hulaki News. Retrieved 2021-06-17.
  2. ^ "Nepali Times | The Brief » Blog Archive » Gupta jailed". Retrieved 2021-06-17.
  3. ^ , Wikipedia, 2021-04-06, retrieved 2021-06-17
  4. ^ "Nepali Times | The Brief » Blog Archive » Who is Gupta?". Retrieved 2021-06-17.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. ^ , Wikipedia, 2019-12-16, retrieved 2021-06-17
  6. ^ "Ministry of Communication and Information Technology". mocit.gov.np. Retrieved 2021-06-17.
  7. ^ "Nepal talks after cabinet minister Gupta is jailed". BBC News. 2012-02-22. Retrieved 2021-06-17.
  8. ^ "भ्रष्टाचारको आरोपमा मन्त्री गुप्ता जेल चलान". BBC News नेपाली (in Nepali). 2012-02-21. Retrieved 2021-06-17.
  9. ^ "Former minister JP Gupta released from prison". Nepali Headlines,Nepal News, Nepali News, News Nepal. 2013-03-18. Retrieved 2021-06-17.
  10. ^ रातोपाटी. "'ओलीसँग टाँसिएर जसपाको माग पूरा हुँदैन'". RatoPati (in Nepali). Retrieved 2021-06-18.
  11. ^ a b रातोपाटी. "जेपी गुप्ता भए सक्रिय, आन्दोलनको तयारी". RatoPati (in Nepali). Retrieved 2021-06-18.
  12. ^ Awecode. "Books by Jay Prakash Gupta (जयप्रकाश गुप्ता)". Thuprai. Retrieved 2021-06-17.
  13. ^ "Ca Election report". 2009-10-03. Archived from the original on 2009-10-03. Retrieved 2020-11-15.
  14. ^ a b "Finalised Constituencies With Top Two Candidates". 2008-01-24. Archived from the original on 2008-01-24. Retrieved 2020-11-15.
  15. ^ "Election Results'99". nepalresearch.org. Retrieved 2020-11-15.
Retrieved from ""