Bal Chandra Misra

Bal Chandra Misra (born 17 July 1942) is an Indian politician and former cabinet minister in the Government of Uttar Pradesh.

Misra was elected four times as MLA from the Govind Nagar assembly seat of Kanpur which is the largest assembly seat in Asia as BJP candidate.^[1] After the 1996 election, CM Kalyan Singh appointed him as a minister in his cabinet. Misra was also minister in Raj Nath Singh's cabinet for the department of Food & Civil Supplies and Labour. He was later made regional president of BJP unit Kanpur zone. Misa is known to take tough decisions, but not bow down to corruption and/or orders from senior leaders that he believes are inappropriate. Moreover, many senior leaders consider him as 'Bal Thackeray' of BJP. Mis is still considered one of the most honest politicians of his time. He actively contributed to rescuing Sikhs, at the risk of his own life, during the 1984 Sikh Massacre. He hasn't been properly rewarded for his excellence due to a rift between himself and senior leaders, (allegedly Murli Manohar Joshi, Member of Parliament from Kanpur seat during 2014–2019) for not accepting demands from them which he considers illegitimate and has set himself a little apart from recent politics citing medical concern but, is still a gem in Indian politics.^[2]