Jagdish_Prasad_(politician)
Jagdish Prasad Mathur
Indian politician
Jagdish Prasad Mathur (January 13, 1928– 4 August 2007)[1] was an Indian politician and a senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He was born in 1928 in Sikar of the present-day Rajasthan state and was associated with Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh since 1942. He became a member of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh in 1952. A two-time member of the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian parliament from 3 April 1978 to 2 April 1984 and from 3 April 1990 to 2 April 1996, Mathur was also the deputy leader of the BJP parliamentary party in the Rajya Sabha in 1993 and chief whip in 1990. He died in Delhi on Saturday, August 4, 2007. His last rites were performed in Jaipur.[2]