Sriprakash Jaiswal

Sriprakash Jaiswal
Jaiswal in 2004
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
In office 10 October 1999 – 22 May 2014
Preceded by	Jagatvir Singh Drona
Succeeded by	Murli Manohar Joshi
Constituency	Kanpur
Minister of Coal Government of India
In office 19 January 2011 – 26 May 2014
Prime Minister	Manmohan Singh
Succeeded by	Piyush Goyal
Minister of State in Ministry of Home Affairs Government of India
In office 23 May 2004 – 22 May 2009
Prime Minister	Manmohan Singh
Preceded by	Chinmayanand Swami
Succeeded by	Mullappally Ramachandran Ajay Maken
President of Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee
In office 4 December 2000 – 3 July 2002
Preceded by	Salman Khurshid
Succeeded by	Arun Kumar Singh Munna
Personal details
Born	(1944-09-25)25 September 1944 Kanpur, United Provinces, British India
Died	28 November 2025(2025-11-28) (aged 81) Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
Party	Indian National Congress
Spouse	Maya Rani Jaiswal
Children	2 sons, 1 daughter, 2 grandsons
Website	www.sriprakashjaiswal.info
As of 11 February, 2013 Source: [1]

Sriprakash Jaiswal (25 September 1944 – 28 November 2025), also written Shriprakash or Sri Prakash, was an Indian politician. He served as a member of Parliament for the Indian National Congress and as Minister of State for Home Affairs. He also held ministry of coal for three years, 2011–2014.[1]

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Jaiswal completed his education in BNSD Inter College. He married Maya Rani on 28 April 1967 and had two sons and one daughter.[2]

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His first political assignment was serving Kanpur city as its mayor in 1989.

He won the 1999 Lok Sabha election and was reelected in 2004 and 2009. He served as Minister of State for Home Affairs in 2004.

He was elevated to Minister Of State (Independent Charge) in 2009[3] holding dual charges of Coal and Statistics And Programme Implementation. In 2014 Lok Sabha elections he lost his seat.

In Aug 2009, when Indian students were being attacked in Australia, Jaiswal had visited Melbourne to meet with International students from India. Jaiswal visited temples, hospitals, and travelled in trains and public transport in Melbourne to meet victims, and interact with Indian students in Australia, to get a better understanding of the situation.

Jaiswal also visited the Victorian Parliament, and had meetings with then Victorian opposition leader Ted Baillieu, and Ministerial Adviser Nitin Gupta to raise concerns about Indian students being attacked in Melbourne, Australia.

Earlier when Victorian opposition leader Ted Baillieu, and Ministerial Adviser Nitin Gupta had visited Delhi, India in July 2009, Jaiswal had met with them to get updates about the ground situation. He still decided to personally visit Melbourne, Australia the next month to see the ground situation with his own eyes.[4][5]

Jaiswal mostly stayed out of the political spats and media. However, he came into the limelight when the Indian coal allocation scam erupted via a leaked Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) in August 2012. He was not the Coal Minister at the time of the crime, but was criticised by the opposition.[6] Jaiswal, however, maintained that the Coal Allocation Process was proper and that the report was disputable.[7] He defended then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.[8]

Another controversy arose while Jaiswal was attending a cultural event in Kanpur; he made sexist remarks, 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'. He later apologized.[9] His remarks received nationwide criticism and a petition was filed against him in the Court by Women's Organizations.[10]

Jaiswal died on 28 November 2025, at the age of 81.[11]