Kameshwar Baitha is a member of the 15th Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Palamu constituency of Jharkhand. He was originally a member of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha political party, but joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in 2014. He left the BJP for the Trinamool Congress after failing to get a ticket for the general Elections of 2014.
Kameshwar Baitha was born to a mine worker in a village in the Bishrampur block of the Palamu district . The highest educational qualification attained by Baitha is matriculation. 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 lowcaste people joined the NaxaliteMaoist insurgent groups. Baitha joined Party Unity in the late 1980s, after the Arwal massacre in whichsupporters of the leftwing group Mazdoor Kisan Sangharsh Samiti were killed in police firing. As a Naxal insurgent, he commandeered the KoelSankh zone of the CPI .
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