Renu Kushawaha
{{Short description|Indian politician (born 1962)}}
{{Use Indian English|date=February 2023}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2016}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Renu Kushwaha
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age |1962|08|29|df=y}}
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| residence = Khagaria
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| office1 = Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
| constituency1 = Khagaria, Bihar
| term_start1 = 1999
| predecessor1 = Shakuni Choudhury
| term_end1 = 2004
| successor1 = Rabindra Kumar Rana
| 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 the Bihar Legislative Assembly
| constituency4 = Bihariganj{{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}}
| term_start4 = 2010
| term_end4 = 2014
| constituency5 = Kishanganj
| term_start5 = 2005
| term_end5 = 2010
| party = Lok Janshakti Party
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| spouse = Vijay Kumar Singh
| children = 3 daughters
| alma_mater = Patna University
| website =
| source = http://164.100.47.194/loksabha/Members/memberbioprofile.aspx?mpsno=537&lastls=13
}}
Renu Kushawaha (also called Renu Kumari Singh), an Indian politician, is a former leader of Lok Janshakti Party{{cite web|url=https://www.etvbharat.com/hi/!state/renu-kushwaha-and-ravindra-singh-resigned-from-ljpr-big-allegation-against-chirag-paswan-brs24040304901|title=LJPR को बड़ा झटका, रेणु कुशवाहा-रवींद्र सिंह सहित कई नेताओं ने छोड़ा चिराग का साथ, पैसा लेकर टिकट बेचने का लगाया आरोप - Renu Kushwaha And Ravindra Singh|website=etvbharat|accessdate=3 April 2024}}{{cite web | url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/patna/all-eyes-on-4-seats-in-khagaria-district/articleshow/78939785.cms | title=All eyes on 4 seats in Khagaria district | publisher=The Times of India | work=N P Thakur | date=30 October 2020 | accessdate=1 November 2020 | archive-date=31 October 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201031044308/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/patna/all-eyes-on-4-seats-in-khagaria-district/articleshow/78939785.cms | url-status=live }} and a former state minister of Bihar. She hails from Khagaria.{{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|archive-date=5 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201105024209/https://www.financialexpress.com/india-news/bihar-elections-bjp-leaders-hitting-out-at-ljp-due-to-pressure-from-nitish-kumar-says-chirag-paswan/2108479/|url-status=live}} She has been associated with several political parties in past, right from Samata Party (now led by Uday Mandal its President){{Cite web |date=2022-10-14 |title=Samata Party to move Delhi HC against Thackeray faction's 'flaming torch' |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/mumbai-news/samata-party-to-move-delhi-hc-against-thackeray-faction-s-flaming-torch-101665771404653.html |access-date=2022-11-26 |website=Hindustan Times |language=en}} and Janata Dal (United) to Bharatiya Janata Party.{{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}}{{cite web | url=http://164.100.47.194/loksabha/Members/memberbioprofile.aspx?mpsno=537&lastls=13 | title=Renu Kumari Singh Lok Sabha Profile | publisher=Lok Sabha | accessdate=1 June 2016 | archive-date=4 December 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201204053010/http://164.100.47.194/Loksabha/Members/memberbioprofile.aspx?mpsno=537&lastls=13 | url-status=live }}{{cite web | url=http://eci.nic.in/archive/electionanalysis/GE/PartyCompWinner/S04/partycomp28.htm | title=Partywise Comparison since 1977 Khagaria Parliamentary Constituency | publisher=Election Commission of India | accessdate=1 June 2016 | archive-date=10 May 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170510101104/http://eci.nic.in/archive/electionanalysis/GE/PartyCompWinner/S04/partycomp28.htm | url-status=live }} In 2015, she contested from Samastipur Assembly seat on a BJP ticket where she lost to RJD candidate.
Biography
Kushawaha was born in Samastipur in 1962.{{cite web |url=https://cdn.s3waas.gov.in/s3138bb0696595b338afbab333c555292a/uploads/2019/01/2019012248.pdf |title=Nomination paper affidavit - Bihariganj |date=28 September 2010 |access-date=6 February 2022 |archive-date=8 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220808233240/https://cdn.s3waas.gov.in/s3138bb0696595b338afbab333c555292a/uploads/2019/01/2019012248.pdf |url-status=live }}{{Cite news|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.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|archive-date=20 March 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220320074931/https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/husband-joins-bjp-minister-renu-kushwaha-sends-resignation-letter-to-nitish-kumar/articleshow/31799612.cms|url-status=live}} 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. She was elected as a Member of the Bihar Legislative Assembly from Bihariganj constituency in Madhepura district.{{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|archive-date=20 March 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220320074255/https://www.firstpost.com/politics/bihar-minister-renu-kushwaha-resigns-may-join-either-ljp-or-bjp-1428597.html|url-status=live}} 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.{{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|url-status=live|archive-date=4 December 2020 }} In 2014, her son Vipin Kumar was abducted for a ransom of fifty lakh and was killed some time after the abduction.{{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}}
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.{{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}}{{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}} 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.{{cite news|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.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|date=16 June 2014 |access-date=2020-12-04|archive-date=20 March 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220320074926/https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/suspended-jdu-mla-renu-kushwaha-approaches-patna-high-court/articleshow/36664685.cms|url-status=live}} She later joined Lok Janshakti Party and resigned in April 2024.{{cite web|url=https://www.etvbharat.com/hi/!state/renu-kushwaha-and-ravindra-singh-resigned-from-ljpr-big-allegation-against-chirag-paswan-brs24040304901|title=LJPR को बड़ा झटका, रेणु कुशवाहा-रवींद्र सिंह सहित कई नेताओं ने छोड़ा चिराग का साथ, पैसा लेकर टिकट बेचने का लगाया आरोप - Renu Kushwaha And Ravindra Singh|website=etvbharat|accessdate=3 April 2024}}
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