Ram Chandra Ram (died 2 March 2009,

Ranchi Ranchi (, ) is the capital of the Indian state of Jharkhand. Ranchi was the centre of the Jharkhand movement, which called for a separate state for the tribal regions of South Bihar, northern Odisha, western West Bengal and the eastern area ...

) was an Indian politician, affiliated to the

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(CPI).

History

Ram made his electoral debut in the Simaria Legislative Assembly constituency in the

1990 Bihar Legislative Assembly election Year 199 ( CXCIX) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was sometimes known as year 952 ''Ab urbe condita''. The denomination 199 for this year has been used since the ...

. He finished in second place with 18,832 votes (30.04% of the vote). In the

1995 Bihar Legislative Assembly election Legislative Assembly elections were held in March 1995, to elect the 324 members of the Bihar Legislative Assembly. Janata Dal got a decisive victory in the state; political manoeuvre ensured Lalu Prasad Yadav's victory in the chief ministership. ...

, Ram finished in second place in Simaria with 19,271 votes (24.36%). Ram contested the 2000 Bihar Legislative Assembly election. He finished in third place in Simaria with 11,532 votes (24.11%). Ram contested the

2005 Jharkhand Legislative Assembly election The 2005 Jharkhand Legislative Assembly election was held in three phases from 3 to 23 February 2005 to elect the 81 members of the Jharkhand Legislative Assembly. It was the first election held in Jharkhand to elect the Second Jharkhand Legislat ...

(the state of

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had been carved out of Bihar by this time). He finished in second place in Simaria with 24,438 votes (23.2%). Ram was elected to the

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in a by-election held for the Simaria seat in February 2008. The by-poll had been called following the death of incumbent

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legislator Upendra Nath Das. Ram's campaign was supported by the

Communist Party of India (Marxist) The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (abbreviated as CPI(M)/CPIM/CPM) is a Marxism–Leninism, Marxist–Leninist communist List of political parties in India, political party in India. It is the largest communist party of India in term ...

(CPI(M)),

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 ...

(RJD) and

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(JMM). The Union Railway Minister

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visited Simaria to campaign for Ram.''Times of India''.
CPI prefers to maintain distance from Congress in Jharkhand
' Ram obtained 30,700 votes (26.31%).Election Commission of India.

' Following the by-election, Ram became the sole CPI legislator in the 82-member assembly. He took his oath as a Member of the Legislative Assembly in

on 8 February 2008. Ram suffered a heart attack in Ranchi on 2 March 2009. He was declared dead upon reaching Central Coalfield Ltd (CCL) hospital.''

Hindustan Times ''Hindustan Times'' is an Indian English-language daily newspaper based in Delhi. It is the flagship publication of HT Media, an entity controlled by the KK Birla family, and is owned by Shobhana Bhartia. It was founded by Sunder Singh Lyall ...

''.
Jharkhand CPI legislator Ram Chandra Ram is dead
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ram, Ramchandra 2009 deaths Communist Party of India politicians from Jharkhand Jharkhand MLAs 2005–2009