Kushwaha Shashi Bhushan Mehta is an Indian politician and an MLA elected from

Panki Assembly constituency Panki Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in the Indian state of Jharkhand. Panki city is situated on Daltonganj to Balumath State highway, in the district Palamu Jharkhand. Members of the Legislative Assembly ^by-elect ...

Jharkhand Jharkhand (; ) is a States and union territories of India, state in East India, eastern India. The state shares its border with the states of West Bengal to the east, Chhattisgarh to the west, Uttar Pradesh to the northwest, Bihar to the north ...

state as a member of

Bharatiya Janata Party The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; , ) is a political party in India and one of the two major List of political parties in India, Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. BJP emerged out from Syama Prasad Mukherjee's ...

in 2019 and 2024. In 2024, he was made the candidate of Bharatiya Janata Party once again from the Panki Assembly constituency, which he retained successfully after defeating independent candidate Devendra Kumar Singh, the runner-up. He defeated Singh with a margin of 9,796 votes. The Indian National Congress candidate Lal Suraj was the second runner-up. Mehta was associated with

Jharkhand Mukti Morcha Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (; ) is a political party in the Indian state of Jharkhand, founded by Binod Bihari Mahato, Shibu Soren, and A. K. Roy. Hemant Soren is the president of the JMM. JMM is also an influential political party in the state ...

political party before joining BJP. He owns a chain of schools spread across

Ranchi Ranchi (; ) is the capital city and also the largest district by population 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 ...

and

Palamu Palamu may refer to: * Palamu division, a division of Jharkhand state, India * Palamu district, a district in Palamu division * Palamu Fort, forts in the forests of the Palamau Tiger Reserve * Palamu (Lok Sabha constituency) a parliamentary const ...

, including Oxford Public School of Ranchi. He was one of the accused in murder of Suchitra Mishra, the warden of his Oxford Public School in Ranchi. However, he was acquitted later in this case.

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Living people 21st-century Indian politicians Lok Sabha members from Jharkhand People from Palamu district Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Jharkhand Date of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) Year of birth missing (living people) {{Jharkhand-BJP-politician-stub