Bhubneshwar Prasad Mehta (born 2 August 1940) is an India politician, affiliated to the

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. He represented the

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constituency of

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in the

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Biography

Mehta was born on 2 August 1940 in a poor farmer family belonging to

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community. He worked as a coal union leader in his early days. He is known as

Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Dzhugashvili; 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until Death and state funeral of Joseph Stalin, his death in 1953. He held power as General Secret ...

of Jharkhand. He won the

2004 Lok Sabha elections General elections were held in India in four phases between 20 April and 10 May 2004. Over 670 million people were eligible to vote, electing 543 members of the 14th Lok Sabha. Seven states also held assembly elections to elect state government ...

on a CPI ticket, defeating BJP's

Yashwant Sinha Yashwant Sinha (, born 6 November 1937) is an Indian politician and retired Indian Administrative Service officer. He served as the Minister of Finance from 1990 until 1991 under Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar and again from March 1998 to July ...

, who served as the finance minister in the

Vajpayee government Atal Bihari Vajpayee was an Indian statesman who served thrice as Prime Minister of India, first from 16 May to 1 June 1996, and then from 19 March 1998 to 22 May 2004. A member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Vajpayee was the tenth Pr ...

. However, Mehta lost the next election to Yashwant Sinha.

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1940 births Communist Party of India politicians from Jharkhand Living people People from Hazaribagh district India MPs 2004–2009 India MPs 1991–1996 Lok Sabha members from Jharkhand Bihar MLAs 1980–1985 Bihar MLAs 2000–2005 {{CPIndia-politician-stub

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