Ashok Kumar better known as Ashok Kushwaha is a former Member of the Bihar Legislative Assembly from the

Sasaram Assembly constituency Sasaram Assembly constituency is one of 243 legislative assembly of legislative assembly of Bihar. It comes under Sasaram lok sabha constituency. Overview Sasaram comprises community blocks of Sasaram & Tilouthu. Earlier Rohtas block and N ...

. He was a member of

Rashtriya Janata Dal The Rashtriya Janata Dal ( RJD; translation: ''National People's Party'') is an Indian political party, based in the states of Bihar, Jharkhand and Kerala. The party was founded in 1997 by Lalu Prasad Yadav. The party's support base has tradit ...

, and was elected in the 2000 Bihar assembly elections as well as the 2015 Bihar assembly elections. Kumar shifted his allegiance to Janata Dal (United) (JDU) prior to

2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election The Bihar Legislative Assembly election was held in three phases through October–November to elect members to the Seventeenth Bihar Legislative Assembly. The term of the previous Sixteenth Legislative Assembly of Bihar ended on 29 November 20 ...

and was made a candidate of JDU from Sasaram constituency against Rajesh Kumar Gupta of Rashtriya Janata Dal. However, he was defeated in the 2020 elections. In 2015 assembly elections, Kumar had defeated

Jawahar Prasad Jawahar Prasad is an Indian politician and a former Member of Bihar Legislative Assembly from Sasaram Assembly constituency. Prasad is a five term Member of Legislative Assembly from Sasaram; he was elected as a candidate of Bharatiya Janata ...

Bhartiya Janata Party The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; ; ) is a political party in India, and one of the two major Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. Since 2014, it has been the ruling political party in India under Narendra Modi ...

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Janata Dal (United) politicians Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Bihar MLAs 2015–2020 Bihar MLAs 2000–2005 People from Sasaram 21st-century Indian politicians {{Bihar-JDU-politician-stub