Birth - Shri Shyam Bihari Mishra was born on Baisakh Badi Dasami, Vikram Samvat 1995, 8 May 1938 in Pipra, Gram Sabha Suar, Tehsil and District Kanpur Dehat to a well-known farmer and rural businessman Shri Baijnath Mishra. His mother Kalavati Mishra named him Shyam Bihari after seeing his image. It was a matter of time that Shyam Bihari lost his mother at the age of only two years. He was brought up by his grandmother Smt. Lakshmi Devi. Apart from him, there are one brother and five sisters in the family. Shri Mishra's grandfather had a cloth business. Later, his father Shri Baijnath established a grain business in Pipra village.

Family background - A very farsighted Shri Baijnath Mishra established a firm named 'Kisan Hitkari Vyapar Mandal' in 1945 at 80/65 Kopar Ganj Kanpur. This firm is still running and Shri Shyam Bihari Mishra's eldest son Shri Kishan Mishra is still running this firm successfully.

Education - Shri Shyam Bihari Mishra received his primary education in the village itself. While he completed his sixth standard from Allahabad. When the country got independence on 15 August 1947, Mishra was in Allahabad. He came to Kanpur in 1948. In 1954, he passed his high school from Allahabad Board, passed his intermediate in 1956. In 1958, he completed his B.Com. from Agra University and in 1961, he completed his M.Com.

Marriage - Shri Mishra was married to Jayanti Mishra, daughter of Pandit Kashi Prasad Mishra of Raebareli, on 4 May 1961. After marriage, he started helping his father at the shop between 1961 and 1964.

Profession - In 1961, Shri Mishra ji was selected for the post of Second Lieutenant, but due to his father's insistence to handle his business, he did not join the army and took over his father's business. His father was famous as Kisan Dada. Family - He has four sons and one daughter. 3 granddaughters, all are well educated and married. All four sons are busy in their business. Shri Mishra has two brothers. His elder brother's name is Pandit Badri Vishal Mishra. He has been the head of the Panchayat of his village Murar for 15 years. He was a Block Development Officer. He has three sons and two daughters. One of his sons, Shri Hanuman Swaroop Mishra, has contested the assembly elections twice. Shri Shyam Bihari Mishra's mother died when he was only 2 years old. He was brought up by his grandmother. Hobbies - Cricket and Shooting

Inspiration of organization against trader harassment : In 1964, Mishra ji was sitting at the shop. Father had gone home for lunch, when there was a commotion in the market and the accountant said uncle has come to the market, go out, the shop has to be closed. On this, Shri Mishra asked the accountant what is uncle. The accountant replied that the sales tax officer has come for a survey. 30 respectable and big businessmen were gathered and he saw that about 25 people were peeping in Chacha Nehru Hospital right in front of the shop to see where the officer was. Seeing this, he felt very sad, he thought in his mind that the businessman is a social reformer, a taxpayer, Shahji, yet his condition is such that he is afraid of an officer. This incident inspired him to form a traders' organization. He sat firmly in his shop. It was 6 o'clock before the officer came to his shop and he went back. This is where he got the inspiration to organize the businessmen.

In 1964, there were about 60-70 grain wholesalers in Kopar Ganj. Shri Mishra formed a small organization called Cooper-Galla-Tilhan-Arhatiya Sangh. He became the General Secretary of this organization. In 1964, this organization was given the form of Kanpur Arhatiya, Galla which still exists. Shri Mishra was appointed the General Secretary of this organization and later took over the post of President and is still holding this post today.

Shri Mishra built a 4-storey building for this organization. While organizing the traders further, he established Kanpur Udyog Vyapar Mandal, which is still the main business representative organization of Kanpur and Shri Mishra is its patron.

In 1974, under the chairmanship of Lala Bishambar Dayal Agarwal, Lucknow, a meeting of the traders of the state was held on the banks of Ganga in Banaras and Uttar Pradesh Udyog Vyapar Pratinidhi Mandal was formed. Shri Mishra became its founder member. Later, in 1984, he became its president and is still its president. A huge five-storey business building with 18 rooms was constructed in Shastri Nagar, Lucknow.

Uttar Pradesh Food Trade Association was established under the leadership of Lala Ganesh Prasad, Banaras. Its president was Shri Naresh Chandra Chaturvedi, who later also became a Congress MP from Kanpur city. Shri Mishra shouldered the responsibility of its General Secretary and later also became its president.

Uttar Pradesh Udyog Pratinidhi Mandal became the main organization of traders of the state, it organized big movements in the interest of trade and went to jail in 1983. He went to jail many times before this also. This fight gave a new turn to the Vyapar Mandal. Vyapar Mandal became stronger than the political parties of the state. Lala Bishambar Dayal gave the slogan of boycott of sales tax survey as per a historic decision. Shri Mishra and all others got involved in it. In many places, there was a fight with the officials, they were chased away from the markets. On 26 May 1979, in this struggle, there was a clash with the sales tax officials at Mata Badalpansari's place in Aminabad, Lucknow, in which the Aminabad police opened fire and 24 years old Harishchandra Agarwal was martyred. After this, the blood of traders in the whole country boiled. There was a series of conflicts in the whole country. In Bulandshahr, Harishankar Agarwal was martyred by a policeman hitting him on the head with the butt of a gun and he was martyred. In this agitation, the same evening, a young general merchant Nityanand Kaushik was shot in the forehead and he became a martyr. He had got married only 6 months back. Kamal Jain of Ghaziabad had started a campaign against extortion of traders. Extortionists entered his house at night and killed him and his child. Only a small child survived.

Thus, the traders' agitation became violent and the officials sat down and stopped coming and going to the markets. On 29 May 1979, the Chief Minister of U.P. Shri Banarasi Das put a complete ban on the survey of sales tax, which is still in force, because Banarasi Das had banned Shri Brahma Dutt, MLA of Dehradun and Madhukar Dighe, MLA of Gorakhpur, both of whom were Finance Ministers. The Vyapar Mandal decided that they will be defeated in the election. In the 1980 election, Lala Bishambar Dayal ji toured the areas to defeat these three. God's grace was there and these three lost the election.

In 1983, U.P. Chief Minister Shripat Mishra imposed one percent sales tax surcharge and market fee, on which there was a movement in the whole state. A huge rally was held in the assembly. Shripat Mishra ordered lathi charge and arrested them. Shri Shyam Bihari Mishra along with 36 traders remained in Lucknow jail and Lala Bishambar Dayal along with 69 traders remained in Farrukhabad jail for 13 days. But bail was not granted. And it was decided that Shripat Mishra will be defeated from Machhli Shahar assembly district Jaunpur. By God's grace he could not win and the Vyapar Mandal's influence was established. On 31.12.1976, he resigned from Congress in protest against the forced sterilization of traders. He did not remain in any party from 1976 to 1991. In 1991, BJP forcibly made him a member and made him contest the election from Kanpur rural area Bilhaur parliamentary seat, which he won by 44000 votes. He contested the election again in 1996 and 1998-99, and won again. Thus, he remained an MP from 1991 to 2004. Seeing Shri Mishra's leadership ability, BJP urged him to contest the MP election. Honorable Kusha Bhai Thackeray and Honorable Sundar Singh Bhandari persuaded Shri Mishra to contest the election. Shri Mishra contested the election from Kanpur Dehat and won four times.