Manoj Singh Kushwaha is a former minister of Bihar. Kushwaha was the Minor Water Resources minister in the

Jitan Ram Manjhi Jitan Ram Manjhi (born 6 October 1944) is an Indian politician from the eastern state of Bihar who served as its 23rd Chief Minister from 20 May 2014 to 20 February 2015. He is President of Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM). Previously, he had serv ...

cabinet in 2014–15. He contested from the

Kurhani Assembly constituency Kurhani Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Muzaffarpur district in the Indian state of Bihar. Overview As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No. 93 Kurhani Assembly constituency is compo ...

in February 2005, November 2005 and 2010 legislative assembly elections, and was victorious.

Political career

Kushwaha is a senior leader of Janata Dal (United) and he was member of legislative assembly for 10 years continuously from 2005 to 2015 on the ticket of JDU. In 2015 legislative assembly elections to Bihar Assembly, the alliance of JDU and

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 ...

made him their candidate from the Kurhani constituency, but he was defeated by his rival candidate from the

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 ...

, Kedar Prasad Gupta. In 2020, when JDU once again changed its alliance and came together with

once again, against its former ally Rashtriya Janata Dal, Kushwaha was not the preferred choice for the candidature of the alliance from the Kurhani assembly. The Kurhani seat, from which he contested earlier in 2005 and 2010 was allotted to the Bhartiya Janata Party and JDU made him its candidate from the Minapur Assembly constituency. He refused to contest from Minapur Assembly Constituency. In December 2022, after the cancellation of Legislative Assembly membership of RJD MLA Anil Sahni on certain grounds, from the Kurhani Constituency, the bypolls were conducted and Kushwaha was made the candidate by the Mahagathbandan (the newly formed alliance of JDU under Nitish Kumar and RJD under Tejashwi Yadav).

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{{reflist Janata Dal (United) politicians Bihar MLAs 2005–2010 Bihar MLAs 2010–2015 People from Muzaffarpur district Year of birth missing (living people) Living people State cabinet ministers of Bihar

Political career

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