Jai Narain Prasad Nishad

Jai Narain Prasad Nishad (18 November 1930 – 24 December 2018)^[1] was an Indian politician and member of parliament from Muzaffarpur Lok Sabha Constituency in the Indian State of Bihar.^[2][3] He was a Union Minister for State in 1996-1998 and a member of Lok Sabha five times and a former member of Rajya Sabha.^[4] He was a member of Janata Dal (United) and with the Bharatiya Janata Party.^[2][3][4][5] His son, Ajay Nishad is the MP of Muzaffarpur.

Cap (Retd.) Jai Narain Nishad with the activist Harikumar Pallathadka in June 2013

Disqualified from parliament

Nishad was a member of BJP when he was disqualified for switching sides 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.^[6] He was removed as a member of Rajya Sabha.

During his political career, he changed to five political parties fifteen times but got elected from the same seat five times.^[7][8]