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|name = Kameshwar Baitha
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|constituency = [[Palamu]], [[Jharkhand]], [[India]]
|office = [[Member of Parliament|MP]]
|term = [[15th Lok Sabha]] 2009-2014
|predecessor = Manoj Kumar
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|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1956|03|15}}
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|party = [[Trinamool Congress]]
|otherparty = [[Jharkhand Mukti Morcha]] (until 2014)
|spouse = Deomunia Devi
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|children = 03 sons and 01 daughter.
|residence = [[Palamu]] and [[New Delhi]].
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'''Kameshwar Baitha''' is a member of the 15th [[Lok Sabha]] of [[India]]. He represented the [[Palamu (Lok Sabha constituency)|Palamu]] constituency of [[Jharkhand]]. He was originally a member of the [[Jharkhand Mukti Morcha]] political party, but joined the [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] in 2014.<ref>http://www.avenuemail.in/ranchi/jmm-mp-kameshwar-baitha-joins-bjp/32431/</ref> He left the BJP for the [[Trinamool Congress]] after failing to get a ticket for the general Elections of 2014.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/Miffed-with-BJP-Baitha-joins-TMC/articleshow/31918062.cms|title = Miffed with BJP, Baitha joins TMC - Times of India|website = [[The Times of India]]}}</ref>

==Education and background==

Kameshwar Baitha was born in a village in the [[Bishrampur block]] of the [[Palamu district]] (then part of [[Bihar]]). The highest educational qualification attained by Baitha is [[matriculation]].<ref name="LS_profile" /> During the 1970s, the rampant feudalism and the resulting marginalisation of the landless lower castes led to social unrest in Palamu and other parts of Bihar. Several low-caste people joined the [[Naxalite–Maoist insurgency|Naxalite–Maoist insurgent]] groups. Baitha joined [[Party Unity]] in the late 1980s, after the Arwal massacre in which 21 supporters of the left-wing group Mazdoor Kisan Sangharsh Samiti (MKSS) were killed in police firing. As a Naxal insurgent, he commandeered the [[South Koel River|Koel]]-[[Sankh River|Sankh]] zone of the [[Communist Party of India (Maoist)|CPI (Maoist)]].<ref name="TheHindu_jungle_2014">{{cite news | url = http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/from-the-jungle-to-parliament/article5892462.ece | title = From the jungle to Parliament | date = 2014-04-10 | newspaper = The Hindu }}</ref>

As a result of his Naxalite past, he is facing as many as 53 criminal cases in various courts that includes killing of 17 PAC jawans and divisional forest officer Sanjay Singh at Rehal village on Kaimur hills in Rohtas.<ref name=" nytimes ">{{cite news|title=In India's Politics, Jail Time Is a Badge of Honor|publisher=nytimes|accessdate=14 Oct 2013|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/14/world/asia/in-indias-politics-jail-time-is-a-badge-of-honor.html?_r=0&hp=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1381760276-imF9y4EA/nxVgG07gTX+y}}</ref> He was the only jail inmate when selected as MP in 2009. Baitha denied his involvement in any violence, stating that he had never touched a weapon in his life during his "27 years of struggle for the people's cause".<ref>{{cite news | url = http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/patna/Baitha-released-from-jail/articleshow/8192959.cms| title = Baitha released from jail | newspaper = The Times of India | date = 2011-05-08 }}</ref>

== Political career ==

In 2009, Kameshwar Baitha won the [[Lok Sabha]] elections from [[Palamu (Lok Sabha constituency)|Palamu]], which is reserved for [[Scheduled Caste]] candidates. He had contested the elections on a JMM ticket, while lodged in a Bihar jail. He defeated Rashtriya Janata Dal's sitting [[Member of Parliament|MP]] Ghuran Ram. After winning the elections, he spent two years and 7 months in jail, getting bail in late 2011.<ref name="TheHindu_jungle_2014"/>

Baitha left JMM in 2014. He declared that he had joined the [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] (BJP), but BJP declined this and did not approve his membership.<ref>{{cite news | url = http://indianexpress.com/article/india/politics/former-dgp-might-contest-against-convicted-mp-in-palamu/ | title = Former DGP might contest against Palamu MP who faces criminal charges | date = 2014-03-09 | author = Deepu Sebastian Edmond | publisher = Indian Express }}</ref> He then joined TMC, and was given a ticket for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.<ref>{{cite news | url = http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/biswajeet-mooshahary-baitha-in-2nd-tmc-list-of-30-candidates-114031201179_1.html | title = Biswajeet, Mooshahary, Baitha in 2nd TMC list of 30 candidates | date = 2014-03-12 | newspaper = Business Standard }}</ref>

===Posts held===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
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! # !! From !! To !! Position
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| 01 || 2009 || - || Elected to [[15th Lok Sabha]]
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| 02 || 2009 || - || Member, Committee on Railways
|-
|}

==See also==

*[[List of members of the 15th Lok Sabha of India]]
*[[Politics of India]]
*[[Parliament of India]]
*[[Government of India]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Baitha, Kameshwar}}
[[Category:1956 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:15th Lok Sabha members]]
[[Category:People from Palamu district]]
[[Category:Lok Sabha members from Jharkhand]]
[[Category:People from Garhwa district]]
[[Category:Jharkhand Mukti Morcha politicians]]
[[Category:All India Trinamool Congress politicians]]
[[Category:Communist Party of India (Maoist) politicians]]

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