He was born in Nainital on January 5 1934, hailing from the Kumaon Hills region of Nainital northern India which today form a part of the state of Uttarakhand. Joshi had his early education in Chandpur, District Bijnore and Almora (currently part of Uttarakhand). He completed his B.Sc. from Meerut College and M.Sc. from Allahabad University. Here one of his teachers was Professor Rajendra Singh, who later became RSS Sarsanghchalaks. He did his doctorate from Allahabad University. The subject of his doctoral thesis was Spectroscopy. He was the first scientist to submit his thesis in Hindi.
After completing his PhD, Joshi started teaching Physics at Allahabad University. He came in contact with the RSS in Delhi at a young age and took part in the Cow Protection Movement in 1953-54, in the Kumbh Kisan Andolan of UP in 1955, demanding halving of land revenue assessment. During the Emergency period (1975-1977) in India, Joshi was in jail from June 26, 1975 until the Lok Sabha elections in 1977. He was elected Member of Parliament from Almora. When the Janata Party (which then included his party) came to power forming the first non-Congress government in Indian history, Joshi was elected General Secretary of the Janata Parliamentary Party. After the fall of the government, his party came out of Janata Party in 1980, and formed the Bharatiya Janata Party or the BJP. Joshi first looked after the Central Office as a General Secretary and later became Party Treasurer. As General Secretary of BJP, he was directly in charge of Bihar, Bengal and North-Eastern States. Later, when BJP formed a government in India under Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Joshi served as the Human Resource Development Minister in the cabinet.
Joshi is known to have been influenced by the life and work of Veer Savarkar, Shri Guruji and Deendayal Upadhyaya. Joshi was a three-term M.P. from Allahabad before he was defeated in the Lok Sabha elections of May, 2004. He won election to the 15th Lok Sabha from Varanasi as a BJP candidate. He also served as the home minister for 13 days government in 1996. Prof. Joshi Honored with “Proud Past Alumni" in the list of 42 members, from "Allahabad University Alumni Association", NCR, Ghaziabad (Greater Noida) Chapter 2007-2008 registered under society act 1860 with registration no. 407/2000. Dr.Joshi was appointed as Chairman of the Manifesto Preparation Board of the BJP in 2009.
Positions Held
1944 Member, Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (R.S.S.)
1949 Member, Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarathi Parishad (A.B.V.P.)
1953-56 General Secretary, A.B.V.P., Uttar Pradesh; All India General Secretary, A.B.V.P.
1957 Organising Secretary, Bharatiya Jana Sangh (B.J.S.), Allahabad
1959-67 Zonal Organising Secretary, B.J.S., Uttar Pradesh
1967-75 Secretary, B.J.S., Uttar Pradesh; Treasurer, B.J.S., Uttar Pradesh; Vice-President, B.J.S., Uttar Pradesh (prior to its merger in Janata Party)
1977 Elected to 6th Lok Sabha
1977-79 General-Secretary, Janata Party in Parliament
1980 Founder General Secretary, B.J.P.
1981-83 Treasurer, B.J.P.
1986-90 General-Secretary, B.J.P.
1991-93 President, B.J.P.
1992 Member, Rajya Sabha
1992-96 Member, Committee on Science and Technology, Environment and Forests; Member, Committee on Public Undertakings; Member, Select Committee on Patent Law; Member, Select Committee on Trade Marks Bill
1996 Re-elected to 11th Lok Sabha (2nd term)
16 May–1 June 1996 Union Cabinet Minister, Home Affairs
1996-97 Chairman, Public Accounts Committee; Member, Committee on Finance; Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Defence; Member, Expert Committee on Low Productivity Areas, Ministry of Agriculture and Co-operation
1998 Re-elected to 12th Lok Sabha (3rd term)
1998-99 Union Cabinet Minister, Human Resource Development; and Science and Technology
1999 Re-elected to 13th Lok Sabha (4th term)
Oct.-Nov. 1999 Union Cabinet Minister, Human Resource Development and Science & Technology
22 Nov. 1999 - 2004 Union Cabinet Minister, Human Resource Development; Science & Technology and Department of Ocean Development
2009 Elected to 15th Lok Sabha from Varanasi, UP
February 2009 Member, Council of the Indian Institute of Science, Banglore
March 2009 Chairman, Ministry of Finance
April 2009 Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Defence
May 2009 Member, Committee on Ethics
January 2010 Member, General Purpose Committee
October 2010 Member, Parliamentary Forum on Global Warming and Climate Change
November 2010 Chairman, Committee on Public Accounts
December 2010 Member, Committee on Budget
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