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{{Short description|Indian politician}}
{{Use Indian English|date=December 2015}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2015}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Dr. C. P. Joshi
| image = C P Joshi UNDP 2010.jpg
| caption = Joshi circa 2010
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1950|7|29|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Nathdwara]], [[Rajasthan]], [[India]]
| residence =
| office = [[Speaker of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly]]
| termstart = 16 January 2019
|governor=[[Kalyan Singh]]<br />[[Kalraj Mishra]]
|1blankname=Chief Minister
|1namedata=[[Ashok Gehlot]]
| termend =
| constituency = [[Nathdwara (Rajasthan Assembly constituency)|Nathdwara]]
| predecessor = [[Kailash Chandra Meghwal]]
| successor =

| primeminister2 = [[Manmohan Singh]]
| office2 = [[Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (India)|Minister of Road Transport and Highways]]
| termstart2 = 19 January 2011
| termend2 = 16 June 2013
| predecessor2 = [[Kamal Nath]]

| successor2 = [[Oscar Fernandes]]
| office3 = [[Ministry of Railways (India)|Minister of Railways]]
| termstart3 = 11 May 2013
| termend3 = 16 June 2013
| predecessor3 = [[Pawan Kumar Bansal]]
| successor3 = [[Mallikarjun Kharge]]

| termstart4 = 22 September 2012
| termend4 = 28 October 2012
| predecessor4 = [[Mukul Roy]]
| successor4 = [[Pawan Kumar Bansal]]

| office5 = [[Ministry of Rural Development (India)|Minister of Rural Development]] [[Ministry of Panchayati Raj|and Panchayati Raj]]
| termstart5 = 22 May 2009
| termend5 = 18 January 2011
| predecessor5 = [[Mani Shankar Aiyar]]
| successor5 = [[Vilasrao Deshmukh]]

| office6 = [[Member of parliament, Lok Sabha|Member of Parliament]]<br />[[Lok Sabha]]
| termstart6 = 2009
| termend6 = 2014
| predecessor6 = [[Vijayendrapal Singh]]
| successor6 = [[Subhash Chandra Baheria]]
| constituency6 = [[Bhilwara (Lok Sabha constituency)|Bhilwara]]

| office7 = [[Minister (government)|Cabinet Minister]] of [[Government of Rajasthan|Rajasthan Government]]
| termstart7 = 7 December 1998
| termend7 = 4 December 2003
| 1blankname7 = Departments
| 1namedata7 = Education, Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, Ground Water, Public Health Engineering, Science and Technology.
| 2blankname7 = Chief Minister
| 2namedata7 = [[Ashok Gehlot]]

| office8 = Member of the [[Rajasthan Legislative Assembly]]
| termstart8 = 2018
| predecessor8 = Kalyan Singh Chouhan
| constituency8 = [[Nathdwara (Rajasthan Assembly constituency)|Nathdwara]]

| termstart9 = 1998
| termend9 = 2008
| predecessor9 = Shiv Dan Singh Chauhan
| successor9 = Kalyan Singh Chouhan
| constituency9 = [[Nathdwara (Rajasthan Assembly constituency)|Nathdwara]]

| termstart10 = 1980
| termend10 = 1990
| predecessor10 = Navneet Kumar
| successor10 = Shiv Dan Singh Chauhan
| constituency10 = [[Nathdwara (Rajasthan Assembly constituency)|Nathdwara]]

| party = [[Indian National Congress]]
| profession = Professor of [[Psychology]]
| spouse =
| children =
| website = https://rajassembly.nic.in/Speaker.aspx
| footnotes =
| date =
| year =
| source =
}}

'''Dr. C. P. Joshi''' (born 29 July 1950) is an Indian [[politician]]. He is a member of the [[Indian National Congress]].<ref>{{cite news
|title = C.P. Joshi springs a surprise by securing place in first batch
|url = http://www.hindu.com/2009/05/23/stories/2009052358500700.htm
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090531185302/http://www.hindu.com/2009/05/23/stories/2009052358500700.htm
|url-status = dead
|archive-date = 31 May 2009
|date = 23 May 2009
|work = [[The Hindu]]
|accessdate = 2009-05-23
}}</ref> He is the current [[Speaker of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly]]. Previously He was the [[Member of Parliament#India|Member of Parliament]] of India from [[Bhilwara (Lok Sabha constituency)|Bhilwara]] in the [[15th Lok Sabha]]. He was one of the first 19 members of India's new cabinet sworn in on 22 May 2009, despite being a first-time member of the Lok Sabha. As a union minister, Joshi held key portfolios like Road Transport and Highways, and Rural Development and Panchayati Raj in the [[Second Manmohan Singh ministry]]. Moreover, He was also a Cabinet Minister of the [[Government of Rajasthan]] from 1998 to 2003.

==Educational background==

Joshi completed his primary and higher secondary education at his birthplace Nathdwara, [[Rajasthan]]. He finished his graduation from University College of Social Sciences & Humanities, [[Udaipur]] with a B.A. in Law, and completed his Masters and Ph.D. degrees in Psychology. He began his academic career as a lecturer at the University College of Social Sciences & Humanities, [[Udaipur]]. Before entering full time politics, Joshi was a Professor of Psychology at Udaipur's [[Mohanlal Sukhadia University]], with a specialisation in Intelligence Quotient.

==Political career==

[[Mohan Lal Sukhadia]], founder of modern [[Mewar]], recognised Joshi's social commitments and encouraged him to actively participate in politics. He was elected as Student Union President for [[Mohanlal Sukhadia University]] in 1973. He was first elected as [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|MLA]] from Nathdwara in 1980. He went on winning the assembly elections from Nathdwara in 1985, 1998, 2003 and 2018. He is a five-time MLA from Nathdwara and one-time MP from [[Bhilwara]].

In 1998, he became the Cabinet Minister for Rajasthan handling key portfolios like Education, Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, Public Health Engineering, Policy Planning, and Information Technology. He gave a new direction to the significant departments of Abhiyantrik Yojna, Panchayati Raj and Education and made his distinguished presence in these fields.

In 2003, as an opposition MLA in [[Rajasthan Legislative Assembly]], he was appointed as the president of [[Rajasthan Pradesh Congress Committee]]. He brought the state unit together to win the [[2008 Rajasthan Legislative Assembly election]] only to lose his own seat by one vote, to [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] candidate [[Kalyan Singh Chauhan]]. He is the second person in the Indian election history to lose an assembly election by one vote. The first candidate to lose by a single vote was A. R. Krishnamurthy against [[R. Dhruvanarayana]] at the Santhemarahalli constituency of Karnataka during [[State Assembly elections in India, 2004|2004 assembly elections]]. He was a prominent Contender for [[Chief Minister of Rajasthan]] post in [[2008 Rajasthan Legislative Assembly election]] victory, but he lost his own seat Nathdwara.

After [[2009 Indian general election]], he was appointed as a Cabinet Minister in the [[Second Manmohan Singh ministry]] on 22 May 2009. From 2009 to 2011, he was the [[Ministry of Rural Development (India)|Minister of Rural Development]] [[Ministry of Panchayati Raj|and Panchayati Raj]] and from 2011 to 2013, he was the [[Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (India)|Minister of Road Transport and Highways]].<ref>{{cite news|title=CP joshi resign|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/ajay-maken-c-p-joshi-resign-cabinet-reshuffle-tomorrow/1129769/|work=Indian express|author=PTI|accessdate=16 June 2013}}</ref> In 2012, after [[Mamata Banerjee]] went out of UPA and Mukul Roy resigned as Railways Minister, CP Joshi got extra charge of Railways Ministry.<ref>{{cite news|title=CP Joshi takes charge as Railway Minister|url=http://ibnlive.in.com/news/cp-joshi-takes-charge-as-railway-minister/294627-37-64.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120927041151/http://ibnlive.in.com/news/cp-joshi-takes-charge-as-railway-minister/294627-37-64.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=27 September 2012|accessdate=4 October 2012|newspaper=IBN Live|date=24 September 2012}}</ref> He resigned from the Cabinet on 16 June 2013 after serving for more than four years to take the charge of General Secretary in [[All India Congress Committee]] (AICC). He continued as the General Secretary of [[All India Congress Committee]] from 2013 to 2018. He unsuccessfully contested the 2014 Lok Sabha elections from [[Jaipur Rural (Lok Sabha constituency)|Jaipur (Rural) seat]].<ref>[http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2014-05-16/news/49898273_1_rajyavardhan-singh-rathore-clean-image-narendra-modi Elections 2014 Results: BJP's Rajyavardhan Rathore defeats Cong's CP Joshi]</ref>

After the [[2018 Rajasthan Legislative Assembly election]], Indian National Congress formed the government in Rajasthan under the leadership of [[Ashok Gehlot]] and [[Sachin Pilot]]. On 16 January 2019, Dr. C. P. Joshi was unanimously appointed as the [[Speaker of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly]].

==Cricket Administration==

Dr. C.P. Joshi has also dabbled in cricket administration. He is a two-time president of [[Rajasthan Cricket Association]] (RCA). In 2009, he contested against former IPL commissioner [[Lalit Modi]] and became the president of RCA for the first time. Again in 2017, he defeated Lalit Modi's son Ruchir Modi and became RCA president for the second time.<ref>https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/congress-choses-c-p-joshi-as-rajasthan-assembly-speaker/articleshow/67534468.cms</ref> Vaibhav Gehlot, son of Rajasthan chief minister [[Ashok Gehlot]], succeeded C.P. Joshi as the president of RCA in October 2019.<ref>https://www.indiatoday.in/sports/cricket/story/vaibhav-gehlot-son-of-rajasthan-chief-minister-ashok-gehlot-is-new-rca-president-1606271-2019-10-04</ref> The newly elected executive committee appointed Joshi as the 'chief patron' of [[Rajasthan Cricket Association]] and president Vaibhav Gehlot said he will work under the guidance of Joshi.<ref>https://www.hindustantimes.com/cricket/vaibhav-gehlot-elected-rajasthan-cricket-association-president/story-aLOSjKMmejtjAzPLdo85KP.html</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://rajassembly.nic.in/Speaker.aspx Speaker]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20170912090201/http://cpjoshi.in/ C P Joshi]

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