Education
He completed his education from Disabled American Veterans College, Kanpur.
politician member of the Lok Sabha
He completed his education from Disabled American Veterans College, Kanpur.
He has been elected three times from Kanpur. He has been Minister of State for Home Affairs since 23 May 2004. In recent cabinet reshuffle he is elevated to the post of Coal Minister.
In 2014 Lok Sabha elections he lost his seat.
Maya Rani on 28 April 1967. Sri Prakash Jaiswal who mostly stayed out of the political spats and media, came into limelight when the scam, Indian coal allocation scam got highlighted all over media through a leaked Report of Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) in August 2012.
Being the Cabinet Minister for Coal at the time of report leakage even though he was not the coal minister at the time of allocation, he was made to face the heat by opposition. Shriprakash Jaiswal, however, maintained his stand of allocations being made through in-practice Coal Allocation Process and also that the CAG report was disputable.
Another controversy regarding Mr.
Jaiswal arose when during attending a cultural event in Kanpur he made sexist remarks against women by saying "(A new victory and a new marriage have their own importance But as times passes, the memories of a victory go old and as time passes, a wife gets old, the same charm is not there) although he later apologized. His remarks received nationwide criticism and even a petition was filed against him in the Court by Women Organizations.
He stood for the 2004 Lok Sabha elections on the Indian National Congress ticket and is former a Member of Parliament from Kanpur.