Manohar Manoj

Manohar Manoj (born July 15, 1966) is an Indian politician, pundit and expert analyst on Indian television. He founded Bharat Parivartan Abhiyan, a campaign against corruption in 2007 from Ghandhi Ashram, Bhitiharwa, West Champaran in the Indian state of Bihar, his home district.

Politician
As a national convenor of Bharat Parivartan Abhiyan, he made padyatra in 700 villages of West Champaran from June to December 2008. He framed a local manifesto for the Balmikinagar lok sabha constituency. It incorporated a broad range of political and election reform, social awakening and economic planning proposals. The manifesto was entitled "Champaran Banega Bharat Ka Champion". It offered a vision to fully utilize the local natural and human resources and provide better local governance.

He contested the 2009 and 2014 Lok Sabha elections as an independent candidate from Balmikinagar (Bihar).

Author
His work focuses on the issue of corruption. From his childhood he felt that corruption was the root cause of India's problems. He wrote thousands of articles and reports on this issue. He edited more than 200 issues of Economy India magazine. He writes a political economy column named "Rajartha" for Economy India and other publications. He founded Bharatiya Yuva Patrakar Sangathan, India's first youth media organization, in 1995, which works for granting the constitutional status of fourth estate to media.

He wrote a book on corruption titled A Crusade against Corruption on the Neutral Path. He also wrote a book titled A Dialogue on System Change, An initiative to make a New India, whose Hindi edition is named 'Vyastha Parivartan ek Vimarsh, pehal ek naye bharat ke rachna ki'. These books offer a perspective on public order and governance.