New State Presidents for MP and Bihar
From Our Correspondent

BJP National President Shri Rajnath Singh has appointed Dr. Satyanarayan Jatia as President of Madhya Pradesh unit of BJP and Shri Radha Mohan Singh has President of Bihar State BJP. Their brief introduction are given below.

Dr. Satyanarayan Jatia

The newly appointed MP BJP President, Dr. Satyanarayan Jatia, is a popular leader and an eminently qualified scholar. Born to Shri Nathulal and Smt. Rukmini Devi on February 4, 1946 in Javad in Neemach district, in 1951 at the tender age of six he joined the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. After primary education in Javad, he went to Malhashram (Indore) for higher secondary education and completed his college studies from Neemach in 1966. Afterwards he joined Bhartiya Mazdoor Sangh and held various responsible positions. In 1972 he was appointed the Secretary (Organisation) Bharatiya Jana Sangh for Bhopal and Shajapur districts and later also of Bhartiya Yuva Sangh.

In 1975 he was elected to the MP State Assembly and during the Emergency was detained under MISA till 1977.

He has been elected as a Member of Lok Sabha from Ujjain for the 7th time in a row since 1980 and from that year has also been a member of the BJP National Executive. From 1984 till 1998 he has been President of BJP Urban and Rural district of Ujjain, State General Secretary and Vice-President of MP BJP, National General Secretary, President of BJP SC Morcha and Secretary of BJP Parliamentary Party.

In 1998, Dr. Jatia was appointed as a Cabinet Minister with the portfolio of Labour, Urban Development and Poverty Eradication, Social Justice Ministries.

Dr. Jatia has written a poetry book “Alakh Satyaj”. His doctoral thesis was on rural life and area of study was integral humanism, religion and philosophy.

Shri Radha Mohan Singh

Bihar State Unit’s new BJP President, Shri Radha Mohan Singh, has represented the Motihari constituency in Bihar Legislative Assembly three times. An RSS swayamsevak since his childhood, he later joined Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad.

While studying for his graduation, Shri Singh also functioned as Secretary of Bharatiya Jana Sangh’s Madhuban unit. In 1970, he was made the district Secretary Organisation.

From 1977 to 1980, he was Janata Party’s district General Secretary and after formation of BJP was made the local Organisation Secretary at Muzaffarpur centre in north Bihar. He made his mark as the State President of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) in undivided Bihar and in 1991-93 as State BJP General Secretary. During the Ayodhya Movement, he headed the kar-seva in Bihar. For 10 years from 1993 to 2003 he was the Secretary of Bihar State Election Committee. Till recently, he was the Vice-President of Kisan Morcha and BJP State Vice-President.

In 1970, Shri Radha Mohan Singh was imprisoned for participating in the Jana Sangh satyagrah for the liberation of Bangladesh and later in 1974, jailed in Bhagalpur during the ‘Dissolve State Assembly’ Movement.

During the Emergency, he was confined to Motihari Jail when he protested against the arrest of Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee in Motihari and Shri Advani in Samastipur.

Proving his mettle in parliamentary politics, he has struggled for the cause of Bihar in Lok Sabha.