Bhubneshwar Prasad Mehta | |
|---|---|
| MP | |
| Constituency | Hazaribagh |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 2 August 1940 |
| Political party | Communist Party of India |
| Spouse | Shakuntala Devi |
| Children | 1 son and 4 daughters |
| Residence | Hazaribagh |
As of 25 September,2006 Source: | |
Bhubneshwar Prasad Mehta (born 2 August 1940) is an Indian politician,affiliated with the Communist Party of India. He represented the Hazaribagh constituency of Jharkhand in the 14th Lok Sabha. [1]
Mehta was born on 2 August 1940 in a poor farmer family belonging to Sokiyar community. [2] [3] [4] He worked as a coal union leader in his early days. He is known as Stalin of Jharkhand. He won the 2004 Lok Sabha elections on a CPI ticket,defeating BJP's Yashwant Sinha,who served as the finance minister in the Vajpayee government. However,Mehta lost the next election to Yashwant Sinha.