# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/murli-manohar-joshi
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:29:30.975Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/murli-manohar-joshi"
name: "Murli Manohar Joshi"
slug: "murli-manohar-joshi"
description: "Murli Manohar Joshi is an Indian politician and physicist. He is one of the founding members and a senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and served as its President from 1991 to 1993. In addition to his role in the BJP, he is a lifelong member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a Hindutva paramilitary organisation. Joshi is a former Member of Parliament from Kanpur Lok Sabha constituency. He is a former professor of physics in University of Allahabad. Joshi later became the Union Human Resources & Development Minister in the National Democratic Alliance government. Joshi was awarded Padma Vibhushan, the second-highest civilian award, in 2017 by the Government of India."
tagline: "Indian politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Murli_Manohar_Joshi_MP.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1934-01-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  momentum:             0
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump