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{{short description|Indian politician}}
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{{Infobox Indian politician
| name = Vishambhar Prasad Nishad
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1962|7|18|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Hamirpur, Uttar Pradesh]]
| residence = [[Banda, Uttar Pradesh|Banda]]
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| office = [[Member of Parliament (India)|MP]] of [[Rajya Sabha]] for [[Uttar Pradesh]]
| term_start = 13 June 2014
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| party =[[Samajwadi Party|SP]]
| spouse = Shakuntla Devi
| children = 4
| website = http://www.samajwadiparty.in
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''' Vishambhar Prasad Nishad ''' (born 18 July 1962) is an Indian Politician from [[Samajwadi Party]], also an Advocate, [[Agriculturist]], and Social Worker. <ref name="Moxham2010">{{cite book|last=Moxham|first=Roy|title=Outlaw: India's Bandit Queen and Me|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RKuohALLNgsC&pg=PA179|access-date=27 November 2012|date=3 June 2010|publisher=Random House|isbn=9781407080130|pages=179–}}</ref> He served as a cabinet minister of the [[Uttar Pradesh]] government three times and was a member of parliament for [[Fatehpur (Lok Sabha constituency)]] in the [[11th Lok Sabha]] in 1996.<ref name="PeopleSabha1997">{{cite book|last1=People|first1=India. Parliament. House of the|last2=Sabha|first2=India. Parliament. Lok|title=Lok Sabha Debates|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zK5XAAAAMAAJ|access-date=27 November 2012|year=1997|publisher=Lok Sabha Secretariat.|page=vi}}</ref>

==Early life ==
Nishad was born in the small village of Bada Kachhaar [[Hamirpur, Uttar Pradesh|Hamirpur]], India at his grandmother's. His late father Shri Shrikrishna Nishad was a small farmer in Jhanjharipurwa, Banda. He studied at Pt. J.N. Degree College and Vishambhar Prasad Nishad, gaining a master's degree in economics from Bundelkhand University, Jhansi after completing LL.B. He married Smt Shakuntla Nishad on 20 April 1987, with whom he had two sons—Vivek and Akhil.

==Political career==

Nishad was elected to the [[Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly]] four times (1991, 1993, 2002 and 2007) for the Tindwari, Banda seat. He worked as a cabinet minister of fisheries, animal husbandry, revenue, Ambedkar Gram Sabha development, External Aided Project and mining. He played an important role in the release of [[Phoolan Devi]], the [[Bandit Queen]] from [[Gwalior]] central jail in 1994, when he was a minister in the [[Uttar Pradesh]] government. He became a prominent [[Nishada]] face of [[Samajwadi Party]] among India's fishing community. Nishad was elected as member of Rajya Sabha on 12 June 2014 on vacant seat after resigning Prof. S. P. Singh Baghel of BSP. After completing his two years tenure, Nishad reelected again for Rajya Sabha till 2022 in July 2016.

==Present activities==

As of 2012, Nishad held the post of National General Secretary of the [[Samajwadi Party]] as well as the State Party in charge of [[Madhya Pradesh]]. He joined the disciplinary committee of Samajwadi Party after the 2012 assembly election.

Nishad announced his candidacy for the [[Hamirpur, Uttar Pradesh (Lok Sabha constituency)|Hamirpur]]-[[Mahoba]]-[[Tindwari]] seat in the 2014 parliamentary election in 2014.

==Social work==

Nishad runs educational institutes in the remote area of [[Bundelkhand]] for the [[Nishada]] fisherman community in memory of the Nishada legend [[Ekalavya]]. In Parliament, he focused on reservation issues related to the problems of India's fishing communities. He is president of Samajwadi Kashyap Nishad Bind Turaha Ekta Mahasabha, which works to advance the fishing castes.

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{cite web|url=http://www.samajwadiparty.in/ |title=Samajwadi Party :: Official Website |publisher=Samajwadiparty.in |access-date=2013-11-07}}

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[[Category:State cabinet ministers of Uttar Pradesh]]
[[Category:11th Lok Sabha members]]
[[Category:Lok Sabha members from Uttar Pradesh]]
[[Category:Rajya Sabha members from Uttar Pradesh|Nishad Vsihambhar Prasad]]
[[Category:People from Fatehpur district]]

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