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Captain (Retd.) Jai Narain Prasad Nishad (born 18 November 1930) is a senior Indian politician, presently a Member of parliament, Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Indian Parliament representing Muzaffarpur Lok Sabha Constituency in the Indian State of Bihar. He was a Union Minister for State in 1996-98 and has been a member of Lok Sabha five times and a former member of Rajya Sabha. Presently he is a member of Janata Dal (United) and formerly he was with the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Disqualified from parliament
Nishad was a member of BJP when he was disqualified as a member of Rajya Sabha in April 2008 under the Anti-defection Law by the Vice President of India who is also the chairman of Rajya Sabha for switching sides. He was removed as a member of Rajya Sabha.
He has changed five political parties but got elected from the same seat five times.