Salkhan Soren was an Indian politician and a prominent leader in movement for separate state of Jharkhand. Soren was a member of the

Jharkhand Mukti Morcha Jharkhand Mukti Morcha ( lit. ''Jharkhand Liberation Front''; JMM) is a State political party in the Indian state of Jharkhand which was founded by Binod Bihari Mahato. It has one seat in the 17th Lok Sabha. Shibu Soren is the president of th ...

. Soren was a member of the Jharkhand Legislative Assembly from the Gandey constituency in Giridih district in 1985, 1990, 2000 and 2005. Soren died on 19 December 2016.

Political career

Salkhan ran for the first time in the

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from the

Gandey Assembly constituency Gandey Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in the Indian state of Jharkhand. Members of Assembly *1977: Laxman Swarnkar, Janata Party *1980: Sarfaraz Ahmad, Indian National Congress *1985: Salkhan Soren, Jharkhand Mukti Mo ...

and emerged victorious. He subsequently ran from the same constituency in the

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and won once again. In the 2000 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Salkhan ran as a

candidate in the

. He received 35,375 votes and won a seat in the Legislative Assembly by defeating his closest competitor, Laxman Swarnkar of the Bharatiya Janata Party, with a margin of 8,918 votes. Salkhan served in this assembly from 2000 to 2005. In the

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, Salkhan once again ran as a

candidate in the

. He secured 36,849 votes and was re-elected to the Jharkhand Legislative Assembly, defeating Dr. Sarfaraz Ahmad of the

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 ...

by 1,512 votes. He continued to serve in this assembly from 2005 to 2010.

References

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