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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Renu Kushwaha
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| residence =[[Khagaria]]
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| office1 =Former [[Member of Parliament]]
|term_start1=1999
|term_end1=2004
|office2=Minister of Agriculture in the [[Government of Bihar]]
|term_start2=2009
|term_end2=2010
|office3=Minister of Industry and Disaster [[Government of Bihar]]
|term_start3=2010
|term_end3=2014
|office4=[[Member of Legislative Assembly]] from Bihariganj<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.livemint.com/Politics/3uaSaUT4djUwXIkpOAPkFN/Husband-joins-BJP-minister-sends-resignation-letter-to-Niti.html|title=Husband joins BJP, minister sends resignation letter to Nitish Kumar|website=Live mint|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201204052626/https://www.livemint.com/Politics/3uaSaUT4djUwXIkpOAPkFN/Husband-joins-BJP-minister-sends-resignation-letter-to-Niti.html|access-date=2020-12-04|archive-date=4 December 2020}}</ref>
|term_start4=2010
|term_end4=2014
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| party =[[Samata Party]] <br>[[Janata Dal United]] <br>[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]<br>[[Lok Janshakti Party]]
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| spouse = Vijay Kumar Singh
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'''Renu Kushawaha''', an Indian politician, is a leader of [[Lok Janshakti Party]] and a former state minister of [[Bihar]]. She hails from [[Khagaria]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.financialexpress.com/india-news/bihar-elections-bjp-leaders-hitting-out-at-ljp-due-to-pressure-from-nitish-kumar-says-chirag-paswan/2108479/|title=Bihar Elections: BJP leaders hitting out at LJP due to pressure from Nitish Kumar, says Chirag Paswan|website=Financial Express|access-date=2020-12-04}}</ref> She has been associated with several political parties in past, right from [[Samata Party]] and [[Janata Dal (United)]] to [[Bharatiya Janata Party]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.jansatta.com/lifestyle/bihar-election-ljp-khagaria-candidate-renu-kumari-kushwaha-spent-24-and-half-lakhs-on-jewelry-and-cars-owns-this-much-property/1564879/|title=पांच सालों में 169 फीसदी बढ़ी LJP उम्मीदवार रेणु कुमारी की संपत्ति, गाड़ी और गहनों पर खर्च किए 24.5 लाख रुपये|website=Jansatta|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201204042405/https://www.jansatta.com/lifestyle/bihar-election-ljp-khagaria-candidate-renu-kumari-kushwaha-spent-24-and-half-lakhs-on-jewelry-and-cars-owns-this-much-property/1564879/|access-date=2020-12-04|archive-date=4 December 2020|quote=translation : Renu Kumari has also been an MLA from JDU. In 1999, she also reached Parliament after winning the Lok Sabha elections from Khagaria on a Samata Party ticket. In 2015, he contested from Samastipur Assembly seat on a BJP ticket where he lost to RJD candidate.}}</ref>

==Biography==
Kushawaha was born in Samastipur in 1979.<ref name=data>{{Cite web|url=http://myneta.info/bih2010/candidate.php?candidate_id=3623|title= Renu Kushwaha |year=2010|access-date=15 October 2015|publisher= myneta.info}}</ref><ref name=Minister>{{Cite news|url=https://m.economictimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/husband-joins-bjp-minister-renu-kushwaha-sends-resignation-letter-to-nitish-kumar/articleshow/31799612.cms|title=Husband joins BJP, minister Renu Kushwaha sends resignation letter to Nitish Kumar|access-date=16 October 2015|date=10 April 2014|newspaper=The Economic Times}}</ref> Her husband is Vijay Kumar Singh who is also a politician with allegiance to the [[Bharatiya Janata Party ]](BJP).

Kushawaha contested elections for the Bihar State assembly in 2010.<ref name=data/> She was elected as a Member of the Bihar Legislative Assembly from [[Bihariganj]] constituency in [[Madhepura district]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.firstpost.com/politics/bihar-minister-renu-kushwaha-resigns-may-join-either-ljp-or-bjp-1428597.html|title=Bihar minister Renu Kushwaha resigns, likely to join BJP|date=11 March 2014|access-date=2020-12-04|newspaper=firstpost}}</ref> Later, she was made a Cabinet Minister in the Government of Bihar, headed by Nitish Kumar as the [[Chief Minister]]. She held the portfolio of Industries and Disaster Management and was the only woman minister in the cabinet.<ref name=Sama>{{cite web|author= |url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2014/apr/19/Bihar-Leaders-Abducted-Son-Killed-602072.html |title=Bihar Leader's Abducted Son Killed |publisher=The New Indian Express |date=2014-04-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201204043325/https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2014/apr/19/Bihar-Leaders-Abducted-Son-Killed-602072.html |access-date=2015-09-26|archive-date=4 December 2020 }}</ref><ref name=Minister/> In 2014, her son Vipin Kumar was abducted for a ransom of fifty lakh and was killed some times after the abduction.<ref name=Prabha>{{Cite news|url=https://news.biharprabha.com/2014/04/ex-bihar-minister-renu-kushwahas-son-killed-after-abduction/|title=Kushwaha's son killed after Abduction|date=19 April 2014|access-date=15 October 2015|newspaper=Bihar Prabha|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201204043635/https://news.biharprabha.com/2014/04/ex-bihar-minister-renu-kushwahas-son-killed-after-abduction/|archive-date=4 December 2020}}</ref>

==Political career==
She has been an MLA three times and once an MP in her political life. Not only this, she has also been a cabinet minister twice in the Bihar government led by [[Nitish Kumar]]. In the 1999 parliamentary election, Renu Kushwaha of [[Janata Dal (United)]] defeated Nayana Rana, wife of [[Rashtriya Janata Dal]] veteran RK Rana, by 31,822 votes from Khagaria constituency.

Although Renu lost to RK Rana of RJD in 2004 elections. Earlier in February 2005, Renu defeated RJD strongman and then minister of the state Ravindra Charan Yadav on a JDU ticket from Udkishunganj assembly constituency in Madhepura. Again, Renu Kushwaha won in November 2005 by-election. In 2009, she became the Minister of Agriculture in the [[Government of Bihar]]. After this, in 2010, after the delimitation of the new assembly, she contested from Bihariganj. This time also supported by her fortune, Renu defeated [[Ranjeet Ranjan]], wife of veteran [[Pappu Yadav]]. She was then made the Minister of Industry and Disaster. But after her husband Vijay Kumar Singh joined BJP in 2014, she resigned from JDU and joined BJP.

In the [[2014 Lok Sabha elections]], Vijay Kumar Singh contested on BJP's ticket from [[Madhepura]] constituency. But he had to taste defeat. In 2019, she resigned from the [[Bharatiya Janata Party]], as she was denied Lok Sabha ticket from Khagaria.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.livehindustan.com/bihar/bhagalpur/story-lok-sabha-elections-2019-politics-heat-with-renu-kushwaha-resignation-2478837.html|title=Lok Sabha elections 2019: Renu Kushwaha's resignation heats up politics|website=Livehindustan|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201204043011/https://www.livehindustan.com/bihar/bhagalpur/story-lok-sabha-elections-2019-politics-heat-with-renu-kushwaha-resignation-2478837.html|access-date=2020-12-04|archive-date=4 December 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://164.100.47.194/Loksabha/Members/memberbioprofile.aspx?mpsno=537&lastls=13|title=Member of Lok Sabha|website=Lok Sabha|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201204053010/http://164.100.47.194/Loksabha/Members/memberbioprofile.aspx?mpsno=537&lastls=13|access-date=2020-12-04|archive-date=4 December 2020}}</ref> Her resignation from JDU to join BJP was necessitated by the fact that earlier, she along with four other legislators were suspended by the JDU for anti-party activities.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://m.economictimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/suspended-jdu-mla-renu-kushwaha-approaches-patna-high-court/articleshow/36664685.cms|title=Suspended JDU MLA approaches the court|website=Economic Times|access-date=2020-12-04}}</ref> She later joined Lok Janshakti Party.

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