Om Prakash Mathur

Om Prakash Mathur
National Vice-President, Bharatiya Janata Party
Incumbent
Assumed office 16 June 2015
Member of the Rajya Sabha from Rajasthan
In office 2008-2014
State President of BJP Rajasthan
In office 2008-2009
Personal details
Born	(1952-01-02) 2 January 1952 Falna, Pali, Rajasthan
Political party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Religion	Hinduism

Om Prakash Mathur popularly known as Om Mathur and Omji Bhai sahab is a member of Rajya Sabha from Rajasthan state in India and is a senior politician from Bharatiya Janata Party. Initially he was groomed by Bhairon Singh Shekhawat but later he became a leader on his own in B.J.P. He was a Pracharak with the RSS and later General Secretary- In charge of the Gujarat B.J.P. After, Narendra Modi's electoral victory he was made the president of Rajasthan state unit of the party, however he had to tender his resignation after the B.J.P. lost elections in Rajasthan. The defeat is accredited to his policy of giving tickets to new faces in Rajasthan instead of the mass leaders from the old school. His policy was based on a hypothesis that junior leaders would toe the party dictats unlike mass leaders who had their own following, as a result of the same many leaders like Dr. Kirorilal Meena either left the Party or were expelled as they contensted against party candidates. His close lieutinents in the Rajasthan include Srikishan Songara, Shankar Singh Rajpurohit and Sunil Singhi in Gujarat. He remained close to the organisation and never fought any elections except Rajya Sabha election.

He is from the village Bedal, near Falna in Bali tehsil of Pali district in Rajasthan. Born in 1952 he studied B.A.at Rajasthan University, Jaipur.

Positions held

April 2008 Elected to Rajya Sabha May 2008 onwards Member, Committee on Chemicals and Fertilizers

Associated with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (R.S.S.) as a Pracharak since 1972; General-Secretary (ORG), Bharatiya Janata Party, Rajasthan, 1990–2002; In charge, B.J.P. units in the States of Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat, 2002–2008; All India General-Secretary, B.J.P., 2005–2008; Appointed State President, B.J.P, Rajasthan in January 2008 and resigned after defeat of the party in state.

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