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Ram Vilas Paswan

1946 - 2020

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Ram Vilas Paswan (5 July 1946 – 8 October 2020) was an Indian politician from Bihar and the Cabinet Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution in the first and second Modi ministries. Paswan was also the president of the Lok Janshakti Party, nine-times Lok Sabha member and two-time Rajya Sabha MP. He started his political career as member of Samyukta Socialist Party and was elected to the Bihar Legislative Assembly in 1969. Later, Paswan joined Lok Dal upon its formation in 1974, and became its general secretary. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ram Vilas Paswan has received more than 3,584,676 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Ram Vilas Paswan is the 14,737th most popular politician (up from 14,892nd in 2019), the 639th most popular biography from India (up from 650th in 2019) and the 191st most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ram Vilas Paswan ranks 14,737 out of 19,576. Before him are Claude Cheysson, Eudemus, Alexandra Marinina, Christopher Loeak, Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal, and Claudia Roth. After him are Ludwig von Moos, Bautista Saavedra, Jaime de Marichalar, Gavin Newsom, Georgi Kyoseivanov, and Charles Athanase Walckenaer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Ram Vilas Paswan ranks 519. Before him are Aynsley Dunbar, Ramazan Abdulatipov, Dori Ghezzi, Valdomiro, Leif Mortensen, and Jo Jo White. After him are Ryszard Szurkowski, Jo Bonfrère, Gordon Haskell, Roy Thomas Baker, Helen Shapiro, and J. E. Freeman. Among people deceased in 2020, Ram Vilas Paswan ranks 424. Before him are Richard Corben, Doug Rogers, Tom Heinsohn, Ernst Jean-Joseph, John Lyons, and Nikolai Gubenko. After him are Gordon Haskell, Regis Philbin, Barbara Windsor, Roman Viktyuk, Keiji Fujiwara, and Denis Goldberg.

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In India

Among people born in India, Ram Vilas Paswan ranks 639 out of 1,861. Before him are Wasim Sajjad (1941), William Birdwood (1865), S. Jaishankar (1955), Pratibha Ray (1944), Sudha Murty (1950), and Rakesh Roshan (1949). After him are Preity Zinta (1975), Sulochana Gadgil (1944), Syama Prasad Mukherjee (1901), Gautam Adani (1962), Ashok Gehlot (1951), and Usha Mangeshkar (1935).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Ram Vilas Paswan ranks 191. Before him are Purushottam Das Tandon (1882), Karamchand Gandhi (1822), K. B. Hedgewar (1889), Lobsang Sangay (1968), Wasim Sajjad (1941), and S. Jaishankar (1955). After him are Syama Prasad Mukherjee (1901), Ashok Gehlot (1951), Shah Shuja (1616), Sheila Dikshit (1938), Venkaiah Naidu (1949), and Mahboob Ali Khan (1866).

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