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

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, standing as the

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candidate. Prior to the election Manjhi had declared assets worth 79,500,000

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s. His son

Jayant Raj Kushwaha Jayant Raj Kushwaha is an Indian politician, Member of Legislative Assembly from the Amarpur (Vidhan Sabha constituency) of Bihar, and Minister of Rural Work in the Government of Bihar. In the 2020 election, he defeated Jitendra Singh of the I ...

is the current

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who is currently representing the same Amarpur (Vidhan Sabha constituency) of

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. He died at the age of 78 on 20 July 2021.

Political career

Manjhi was a resident of Baunsi in

Banka district Banka is one of the thirty-eight districts of the state of Bihar in India. The district headquarters of Banka is situated in Banka town. The district was established on 21 February 1991. History Banka is the homeland of the revolutionary Sati ...

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

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

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. 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

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for long. Earlier, Manjhi had contested from the same constituency against Yadav but was defeated as Belhar was considered to be a

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caste dominated constituency. In the elections to

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in 2010 too, Manjhi was successful in winning the Amarpur constituency. 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

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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

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Manjhi, Janardhan 1943 births 2021 deaths Janata Dal (United) politicians Bihar MLAs 2015–2020 People from Banka district Bihar MLAs 2010–2015