Jagdish Prasad Kushwaha was an

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practitioner and politician from

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 ...

, India. He was a leader of

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, considered as one of the early leaders of Sangh, who played significant role in establishing it in

Kodarma Lok Sabha constituency Kodarma Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 14 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in the state of Jharkhand in eastern India. This constituency covers the entire Koderma district and parts of the Hazaribagh and Giridih districts. Assembl ...

and

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region in unified Bihar. Kushwaha was elected as Pramukh of Jamua

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in Jharkhand for multiple terms and assumed this position until his death in 1999. He was the elder brother of Rati Lal Prasad Verma, six term Member of Indian Parliament from Kodarma Lok Sabha constituency and father of Jharkhand Legislative Assembly member, Jai Prakash Verma.

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