The Rashtriya Janata Dal is an Indian political party,based in the states of Bihar and Jharkhand. The party was founded in 1997 by Lalu Prasad Yadav.
Rajendra Prasad was an Indian politician,lawyer,journalist and scholar who served as the first president of India from 1950 to 1962. He joined the Indian National Congress during the Indian independence movement and became a major leader from the region of Bihar and Maharashtra. A supporter of Mahatma Gandhi,Prasad was imprisoned by British authorities during the Salt Satyagraha of 1930 and the Quit India movement of 1942. After the constituent assembly 1946 elections,Prasad served as 1st Minister of Food and Agriculture in the central government from 1947 to 1948. Upon independence in 1947,Prasad was elected as President of the Constituent Assembly of India,which prepared the Constitution of India and served as its provisional Parliament.
The Jharkhand Party (JP) is an oldest Political Party in India formed on 5th March 1949 by Marang Gomake Jaipal Singh Munda in Ranchi. The party grew out of the demand for a separate Jharkhand state.
Shri Krishna Singh (Sinha) (21 October 1887 –31 January 1961),also known as Shri Babu,was the first chief minister of the Indian state of Bihar (1946–61). Except for the period of World War II,Sinha was the chief minister of Bihar from the time of the first Congress Ministry in 1937 until his death in 1961. Along with the Desh Ratna Rajendra Prasad and Bihar Vibhuti Anugrah Narayan Sinha (A.N. Sinha),Sinha is regarded among the 'Architects of Modern Bihar'. He also led the Dalit entry into the Baidyanath Dham temple (Vaidyanath Temple,Deoghar),which reflected his commitment towards the upliftment and social empowerment of the Dalits. He was the first chief minister in the country to abolish the zamindari system. He underwent different terms of imprisonment for a total of about eight years in British India. Sinha's mass meetings brought hordes of people to hear him. He was known as Bihar Kesari for his lionlike roars when he rose to address the masses. His close friend and eminent Gandhian Bihar Vibhuti A.N. Sinha in his essay Mere Shri Babu wrote that,"Since 1921,the History of Bihar has been the history of the life of Shri Babu".
Krishna Ballabh Sahay,popularly known as K B Sahay was an Indian freedom fighter,who after Indian Independence became the Revenue Minister of Bihar and then became the fourth Chief Minister of unified Bihar.
Shri Subodh Kant Sahay is an Indian politician. He served as three term MP of India. He represented the Ranchi constituency of Jharkhand and is a member of the Indian National Congress (INC) political party. He had been holding important portfolios. He was the Cabinet Minister for Tourism until 28 Oct 2012. He is referred as one of the closest to former Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and former UPA Chairperson Smt. Sonia Gandhi. According to sources,Sonia Gandhi knew him for his truth and hard work. He was the Minister for Home in V.P. Singh government. Sahay was asked to resign in 2012 from his ministerial post by Manmohan Singh in light of favouring his brother in allocation of coal mine blocks in the infamous Coal Scam.
Anugrah Narayan Sinha,known as Bihar Vibhuti,was an Indian nationalist statesman,participant in Champaran Satyagraha,Gandhian &one of the architects of modern Bihar,who was the first Deputy Chief Minister and the Finance Minister of the Indian state of Bihar (1946–1957). He was also a Member of the Constituent Assembly of India,which was elected to write the Constitution of India and served in its first Parliament as an independent nation. He also held a range of portfolios including Labour,Local Self Government,Public Works,Supply &Price Control,Health and Agriculture. A.N. Sinha,affectionately called Anugrah Babu,was a very close associate of Mahatma Gandhi during the freedom struggle movement and worked with Bihar Kesari Sri Krishna Sinha to lead the Gandhian movement in Bihar. One of the leading nationalists in the Indian independence movement from Bihar after Dr Rajendra Prasad,he was elected as the Congress Party deputy leader in the state assembly to assume office as first Deputy Chief Minister cum Finance Minister of independent Bihar,and re-elected when the Congress Party won Bihar's first general election with a massive mandate in 1952.
Deep Narayan Singh was an Indian politician,participant in the Indian independence movement,and a former Chief Minister of Bihar.
The politics of Odisha are part of India's federal parliamentary representative democracy,where the union government exercises sovereign rights. Certain powers are reserved to the states,including Odisha. The state has a multi-party system,in which the two main parties are the nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the regional,socialist Biju Janata Dal (BJD). The Indian National Congress (INC) has also significant presence.
Maharaja Kamakhya Narain Singh Bahadur of Ramgarh,Jharkhand was the Maharaja Bahadur of Ramgarh Raj and later a politician. He belonged to the Rathore clan of Rajput.
Thakur Ramapati Singh,was a freedom fighter,politician,MLA and Minister of Bihar,Member of Indian Parliament and a prominent social personality from Motihari,Bihar in India.
Bermo Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in the Indian state of Jharkhand. The current MLA is Indian National Congress's Kumar Jaimangal Singh alias Anup Singh. Anup Singh is the son of former MLA Late Rajender Singh of Bermo Constituency.
Ghorasahan Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Purvi Champaran district in the Indian state of Bihar. The railway station is under Sonpur division. It is under Dhaka subdivision and under Dhaka court jurisdiction. It depends on Dhaka town for its requirements.
Baikunthpur Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Dighwa Dubauli locality of Gopalganj district in the Indian state of Bihar.
Rajo Singh was a politician from Bihar,India. He remained active in the electoral politics at the state and national level for over 50 years.
Ram Lakhan Singh Yadav,known with the honorific "Sher-e-Bihar",also known as Ramlakhan Babu,was an Indian freedom fighter,educationist,social reformer and politician. The half a century long political journey of Ramlakhan Babu,which started in post-independence era as a member of the Zilla Parishad in 1947,reached the pinnacle of becoming a Union Minister in the Central Government in 1994.He was elected to the 10th Lok Sabha,lower house of the Parliament of India from the Arrah,Bihar in 1991 as a member of the Janata Dal but joined the Congress in controversial circumstances which helped save Narasimha Rao Government in the 28 July 1993 no confidence vote. He was the Minister for Chemicals and Fertilizers in the Narasimha Rao Government.
Ravindra Kumar Ray is an Indian politician and member of parliament from Koderma constituency,Jharkhand. He won in the Indian general election in 2014 as a Bharatiya Janata Party candidate. He was the Mines and Mineral minister of Jharkhand during Babu Lal Marandi’s government and later became the Cabinet minister of Industry and Labour during the Arjun Munda government. Dr. Ravindra Ray played an important role in the formation of Jharkhand and was the first person to propose the idea of having a CM of the MLA’s choice in the state.
An election was held in 1969 to elect members to the Bihar Legislative Assembly,the lower house of the legislature of the Indian state of Bihar. After the elections,the Congress emerged as the largest party,and Harihar Singh was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Bihar.
Yogeshwar Mahto is an Indian politician from Jharkhand. He is a member of Bhartiya Janata Party. In 2014,he was elected as a member of the Jharkhand Legislative Assembly from Bermo constituency,however Yogeshwar Mahto lost in the 2019 Assembly elections. In Bermo,Congress's Rajendra Prasad Singh defeated BJP's Yogeshwar Mahto.
Kushwaha is a surname used by people of Koeri caste in Bihar. The Kushwahas are also known as Maurya,Shakya,Saini in various parts of north India. As per one opinion,the Kushwaha surname is also common among members of Kachhi caste,who later merged with the Koeris to become a single homogeneous community. They are a dominant OBC community,who comprise about 9% of the population of state of Bihar.
