BHOJPURI PEOPLE

Bhojpuri people started settling down to different part of the world as early as late eighteenth century for the their livelihood as farm labourer in Oceania, Africa, Latin America and in Caribbean islands under Imperial Power of Europe. These people took in their blood the great Indian Bhojpuri Culture, the Spirituality, the love for humanity and compassion, the religious tolerance and a longing for better and prosperous life. Bhojpuri people are characterised by their love for the mother land. Their straightforwardness, simple and spiritual life. These people are normally content with what they have. They are hard working people. They are the mainstay of Indian Construction/Real Estate Industry. They are the elite and main ruling class in Fiji, Surinam, Mauritius, Guyana, Trinidad and they are main king maker in Uttar Pradesh (UP) and Bihar. Almost 75% of ministers of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar come from this region.

Of late the software professionals, technocrats, doctors, technicians, masons, skilled, semi-skilled workers, construction workers from this area are going abroad to USA, Canada, UK, France, Holland, Australia, Singapore, Japan etc. for better opportunity as Bhojpuri area is the one of most under developed area in terms of economic development, industrialisation. There is no large scale industries in these areas where people can get employment, in turn they leave for the other places for greener pastures.

Bhojpuri region is the land of Ram and his Ramayan. It is also land of Vishnu avatar Bhagwan Mahatma Buddha and Bhagawan Mahaveer, who were born in this region much before the evolution of Hindi/Bhojpuri and spread the messages of Peace, Non violence and Love to the mankind of whole world and laid the foundation of two world religions Jainism and Buddhism, both offshoot of Hinduism. 

Later Shershah Suri from this region (also known as Sher khan from Ara) challenged the might of Moghuls in Buxur Battle, and became the Emperor of India. He is considered the greatest Administrator of all the emperor of India and laid the foundation of unification of whole India, which were later achieved by British rulers, by constructing the Grand Trunk Road from Calcutta to Lahore.(now NH-2 & 1) and other infrastructures. He also led the foundation of the modern city of Patna, the capital of Bihar at the site of ancient Patliputra, the first capital city of India.
The pioneer of first freedom struggle of India, Mangal Pandey belonged to this region, an ordinary sepoy in British Army, challenged the might of British ruler. Mangal Pandey ignited the spark of revolt which engulfed the whole of north India. Later Veer Kunwar Singh from Ara joined this struggle and taught a good lesson to the ruler. An eighty year old man, Veer Kunwar Singh remained invincible and could not be captured by British. While crossing the Ganges, he was shot in his left hand. As the saying goes, he cut his arm and offered it to the River Ganga. Such was the his valour and Courage.  Later on this tradition of bravery culminated into patriotism of highest order of Amar Shaheed Chadrasekhar Azad, who was born near Varanasi, spiritual capital of India.


Dr Rajendra Prasad from Chapra, the first President of India was a genius and never studied a book twice. He used to memorise whatever he read. He broke all the records of all the school and colleges wherever he studied. Be it Zila School  Chapra or Presidency College Calcutta. He is the only student in the history who has got this remark, ''Examinee is better than Examiner". He was a great Gandhian and worked for the social cause.


Sri Chandrasekhar, Ex PM of India from Ballia, is a great socialist leader and was known as young Turk of  Indian Politics and has selflessly devoted whole of his life for betterment of India & Indian Politics. He along with  Jai Prakash another bhojpuri challenged the might congress rule and broght about a new era in Indian Polity of which all other non-congress politicians  of  today were associates. The story is endless ....... and the list is never ending .......


Jaya Prakash Narayan
Jaya Prakash was born in a respectable middle-class Bihari kayasta family. His childhood was unspectacular, but while studying in the United States he came into contact with radical socialist thinking. On his return to India he found himself drawn to Gandhi and his charismatic disciple Jawaharlal Nehru. Jaya Prakash took inspiration from them and plunged into the freedom movement.
But it was in 1974, at the unlikely age of 72, that JP really became a mass leader. JP's `Total Revolution' borrowed from Gandhi in that it envisaged a process of change, both in the individual and in society, with moral values and decentralisation of economic and political power being at its core.
The call for revolution was a turning point that ousted Indira Gandhi from power and ushered in the first-ever non-Congress government at the Center. Students flocked to JP's side, among them being Arun Jaitley and Laloo Prasad Yadav, as did men as varied as Charan Singh and Morarji Desai, L.K. Advani and Nanaji Deshmukh. But for JP, who became the focal point of all those opposed to the increasingly authoritarian rule of Indira Gandhi, it is doubtful if the Janata Party would have held together for as long as it did.
Laloo Prasad Yadav * 
Laloo Prasad Yadav is a symbol: of both the subversion and the impotence of the system, of the fact that however low politicians sink, there will always be someone who will sink lower in a bid to hold on to power.
Yet when he began, Laloo Yadav had some ideals and was seen as the quintessential grassroots man. He seemed to want to end corruption and make public servants accountable. There were raids upon police stations, hospitals, the electric supply and public departments. He punished, passed edicts, ate with the villagers and looked after his cows.
He has a thorough grasp of political gamesmanship. In making his wife Rabri Devi chief minister when pushed off the brink, he can claim a difference of degree more than an absence of precedent; he could point to the Nehru-Gandhis, the NTRs, the MGRs; also the Bandarnaikes and the Bhuttos as examples of typical rule in the region.