Vinod Narayan Jha

Vinod Narayan Jha is an Indian politician and currently cabinet minister of PHED department, Government of Bihar. He has served as vice-president and chief spokesperson of Bharatiya Janata Party in Bihar. On 3 June 2016 he was elected unopposed to the Bihar Legislative Council and served as cabinet minister in Government of Bihar.^[1]

Vinod Narayan Jha
Minister of Public Health Engineering Department Government of Bihar
In office 29 July 2017 – 16 November 2020
Chief Minister	Nitish Kumar
Preceded by	Krishnanandan Prasad Verma
Succeeded by	Ram Prit Paswan
Member of Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Assumed office 2020
Preceded by	Bhawana Jha
Constituency	Benipatti
In office 2010–2015
Preceded by	Shaligram Yadav
Succeeded by	Bhawana Jha
Constituency	Benipatti
In office 2005–2010
Preceded by	Naiyar Azam
Succeeded by	constituency defunct
Constituency	Pandaul
Member of Bihar Legislative Council
In office 3 June 2016 – 11 November 2020
Succeeded by	Mukesh Sahani
Constituency	elected by Legislative Assembly members
Personal details
Born	(1957-02-28) 28 February 1957 (age 68) Ghonghour, Madhubani, Bihar
Political party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Spouse	Smt Meena Jha
Children	Son – Vibhay Kumar Jha & 2 daughters

Political career

He is one of the senior most politicians from Bihar who participated actively in Jayaprakash Narayan – Bihar Movement. He was jailed for three months in Buxar central jail as political prisoner. On the invitation of American council of young political leaders he visited America to cover George H. W. Bush presidential election and travelled eleven states of United States to participate in Democratic Party (United States) conferences.

Minister of Public Health Engineering Department

He is known for successful implementation of comprehensive "Nal Jal Yojna – हर घर नल-हर घर जल" and his commitment on providing Arsenic-free water across Bihar by 2020. He created a controversy in 2019 General elections in India by stating only beauty can win the election referring to Priyanka Gandhi.^[2] Under his tenure 110 quality-testing labs across its 38 districts were set-up and arrangements were made to provide drinking water from the surface of Ganges instead of sourcing from underground water.^[3] As a minister of PHED, he campaigned for mass awareness on water quality and ensured that all citizens can get certificate about quality of drinking water within 24 hours of submitting samples.^[4] His effort on maintaining water hygiene and consuming clean drinking water among all people of the state was appreciated by many established NGOs in the region.

Positions held

• Cabinet minister – Public Health Engineering Department – Government of Bihar^[5]
• Vice President -: Bharatiya Janata Party – Bihar State (2000 to 2003).
• Chief Spokesperson: Bharatiya Janata Party- Bihar State (2006 to 2010).^[6]
• Member of the Legislative Assembly – Pandaul Constituency – 79 ( Madhubani, Bihar ). (2005 to 2010).
• Member of the Legislative Assembly – Benipatti Constituency – 32, ( Madhubani, Bihar ).
• Member : National Council – Bharatiya Janata Party
• Vice Chairman- : Bihar State Textbook Publishing Corporation Ltd , Patna.
• Director – : Saran Engineering Company, Ministry of Textiles Government of India (1990 to 1995).
• Member-: Hindi Salahkar Samiti , Ministry of Power and Renewable Energy, Government of India (1998 to 2000).