Dev Dyal Kushwaha

1. Though there are 35 contestants in the fray, the contest has limited to four main players, sitting BJP MLA and agriculture minister Dev Dayal Kushwaha, Congress' Saurabh Narayan Singh, RJD's Gautam Sagar Rana and independent candidate Brij Kishore Jaiswal, Kushwaha faces the biggest challenge of retaining the seat, which he has been holding for the last three terms. A major chunk of Koeri, Kurmi and Sokiyar, who constitute about 22 per cent of the voters, are with Kushwaha, a Koeri. ^[6]

Citations

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Dev Dayal Kushwaha
Member of the Jharkhand Legislative Assembly
In office 1990–2005