Jamuna Prasad Nishad (1953 – 19 November 2010) was an Indian politician from the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), representing the Pipraich constituency in the Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha (Legislative Assembly).
Despite contesting about fifteen elections, he had won only twice, once as a village mayor (gram pradhan) and then in 2007 to the state legislative assembly.
Subsequently he was fielded by the Samajwadi Party (SP),[5] and lost Lok Sabha elections to Yogi Adityanath in 1998, 1999 and 2004.
He finally won as gram Pradhan from his native village and in the Uttar Pradesh Elections 2007, he won from the Pipraich constituency with a 7% (6,000 vote) margin[7] over the criminal-politician and liquor-baron Jitendra Jaiswal alias Pappu, erstwhile minister under Kalyan Singh of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
At one stage, the group attempted to enter the strongroom in the police station, and constable Krishnanand Rai, a noted hockey player,[8] was apparently preventing their entry.
In the ensuing altercations, someone from Nishad's group fired three rounds, and two bullets hit constable Rai in the chest, killing him.
[9] Subsequently, Mayawati summoned Nishad for discussions and later dropped him from the ministry,[2] while appointing a special medical board to investigate the rape charges.
Nishad has denied that he went to the Kotwali police station at all, claiming that he had merely "called up some officials and asked them to probe the rape case,"[9] and that the violence was instigated by angry locals.