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Janardan Manjhi

Janardan Manjhi

Indian politician (1943–2021)

Janardhan Manjhi (1943[1] – 20 July 2021) was an Indian politician. He was an agriculturist and studied up to Class X.[2] He won the Amarpur seat in the 2010 Bihar Legislative Assembly election.[3]

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He retained the Amarpur seat in the 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, standing as the Janata Dal (United) candidate.[4][5] Prior to the election Manjhi had declared assets worth 79,500,000 Indian rupees.[2]

His son Jayant Raj Kushwaha is the current Member of Legislative Assembly who is currently representing the same Amarpur (Vidhan Sabha constituency) of Bihar.[6] He died at the age of 78 on 20 July 2021.[7][8]

Political career

Manjhi was a resident of Baunsi in Banka district of Bihar. His political career started in 2001, when he won the elections to the Zila Parishad. Prior to this election, he was serving as the president of the district unit of Janata Dal (United) for the Banka. He was considered close to the former Union Minister Digvijay Singh and was working for the state's transport corporation in Bihar. Manjhi secured victory in the legislative assembly elections of 2005 from the Belhar Assembly constituency, defeating Ramdev Yadav of Rashtriya Janata Dal. This was considered as one of his greatest political achievement by the political analysts, as the particular seat was considered to be a stronghold of RJD for long. Earlier, Manjhi had contested from the same constituency against Yadav but was defeated as Belhar was considered to be a Yadav caste dominated constituency. In the elections to Bihar Legislative Assembly in 2010 too, Manjhi was successful in winning the Amarpur constituency.[7]

The change in constituency took place after veteran leader of RJD, Giridhari Yadav joined JD(U) and the officials of the party decided to allow him contest from the Belhar constituency. In 2015, Manjhi again contested from the Amarpur constituency and he defeated Mrinal Shekhar of Bharatiya Janata Party this time. In 2020, due to ill health and ageing issues, he decided not to contest the elections and his son Jayant Raj was the candidate of JD(U) from Amarpur. In a trilateral contest, Jayant was able to retain the seat.[7]

References

  1. [1]
    "लगातार तीन बार जदयू विधायक रहे जनार्दन मांझी का निधन, वर्तमान में बेटा है नीतीश का मंत्री". Dainik Jagran (in Hindi). Archived from the original on 23 July 2021. Retrieved 23 July 2021.
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    NDTV Elections. BIHAR Candidates - Phase I Archived 29 October 2015 at the Wayback Machine
  3. [3]
    Election Commission of India. STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 2010 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF BIHAR Archived 5 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine
  4. [4]
    "Janardan Manjhi of JD (U) defeats Mrinal Shekhar of BJP by a margin of 11,773 votes in Amarpur Assembly segment. JD (U) retains the seat". UNI. 8 November 2015. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
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    Yahoo! News. JD-U registers first win in Bihar Archived 5 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine
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    Nezami, Sheezan (10 October 2020). "Bihar assembly elections: Leaders make way for political heirs". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 26 May 2021. Retrieved 2 June 2022.
  7. [7]
    Kumar, Rajesh (21 July 2021). "मंत्री जयंत राज के पिता जनार्दन मांझी का निधन, लगातार 3 बार रहे थे विधायक". Zee Bihar Jharkhand (in Hindi). Archived from the original on 2 June 2022. Retrieved 23 July 2021.
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    "जनार्दन मांझी का निधन राजनीतिक जगत के लिए अपूर्णीय क्षति : राहुल". Hindustan (in Hindi). Archived from the original on 23 July 2021. Retrieved 23 July 2021.
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