Background
Kameshwar Baitha was born to a mine worker in a village in the Bishrampur block of the Palamu district (then part of Bihar).
politician member of the Lok Sabha
Kameshwar Baitha was born to a mine worker in a village in the Bishrampur block of the Palamu district (then part of Bihar).
He represented the Palamu constituency of Jharkhand. He left the BJP for the Trinamool Congress after failing to get a ticket for the general Elections of 2014. During the 1970s, the rampant feudalism and the resulting marginalisation of the landless lower castes led to social unrest in Palamu and other parts of Bihar.
Several low-caste people joined the Naxalite–Maoist insurgent groups.
As a Naxal insurgent, he commandeered the Koel-Sankh zone of the Consumer price index (Maoist). As a result of his Naxalite past, he is facing as many as 53 criminal cases in various courts that includes killing of 17 Public Affairs Committee jawans and divisional forest officer Sanjay Singh at Rehal village on Kaimur hills in Rohtas.
He was the only jail inmate when selected as Member of Parliament in 2009. Baitha denied his involvement in any violence, stating that he had never touched a weapon in his life during his "27 years of struggle for the people"s cause".
He had contested the elections on a JMM ticket, while lodged in a Bihar jail.
He defeated Rashtriya Janata Dal"s sitting Member of Parliament Ghuran Ram. After winning the elections, he spent two years and 7 months in jail, getting bail in late 2011. Baitha left JMM in 2014.
He declared that he had joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), but BJP declined this and did not approve his membership.
He then joined Technology Marketing Corporation, and was given a ticket for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. Posts held.
He was originally a member of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha political party, but joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in 2014.