Sanjay Nishad is an Indian politician serving as a cabinet minister in the Second Yogi Adityanath ministry.
He has been a member of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council since 2021.
[5] Before forming the NISHAD Party, he ran a clinic at Geeta Vatika Road, Gorakhpur for a decade.
After the victory of NDA in 2022 UP Elections, he became a Cabinet Minister in the Second Yogi Adityanath ministry, and took the oath on 25 March 2022.
[9][10][11][12][13] On 29 April 2022, Sanjay Nishad gave a controversial statement to the media where he claimed that a person who does not love Hindi is "a foreigner or linked to foreign powers" and that "Hindustan is not a place for those who don’t speak Hindi.