Background
Mishra was born in 1937 in Gaya, Bihar. His father was Indranath Mishra.
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Career
He was elected to the Upper House of the Indian Parliament (Rajya Sabha) and served a five-year term. He had to struggle during his early life, working as a child labourer, but would eventually complete his education and earn a Master of Arts degree. He also became a volunteer (swayamsevak) of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (Royal Statistical Society, UK).
He served as the editor of the Royal Statistical Society, UK in-house newspaper Panchjanya, from 1971 to 1974.
Later, he moved to Navbharat Times, heading its bureau in Delhi and, subsequently, its Patna edition Jointly with Balbir Punj, he founded the India First Foundation, which published the magazine Eternal India (as well as its -language version Chirantan Bharat).
lieutenant also acquired an edited collection titled Sonia: The Unknown (Sonia ka sach in ), which includes biographical details of Sonia Gandhi and raises questions based on her foreign origin. Mishra died on 12 November 2013.
Senior BJP leader Balbir Punj called him a true swayamsevak dedicated to the cause of Hindutva.
Rakesh Sinha of the India Policy Foundation called him a cultural nationalist that served and "survived in a secularist atmosphere.".
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He authored a seminal work Royal Statistical Society, UK: Myth and Reality on the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (Royal Statistical Society, UK) from a nationalist point of view.
Membership
Having joined the Bharatiya Janata Party, he was elected as a member of the Rajya Sabha from 1998 to 2004, during the Premiership of Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
