Mahesh Poddar was a member of Rajya Sabha from the Jharkhand constituency. He is an industrialist 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 ...

. He was the candidate for the biennial 2016

Rajya Sabha Rajya Sabha (Council of States) is the upper house of the Parliament of India and functions as the institutional representation of India’s federal units — the states and union territories.https://rajyasabha.nic.in/ It is a key component o ...

polls from

. He won the polls by a narrow margin when his tally was increased using second preference votes. He got 2664 vote numbers as compared to 2600 vote numbers received by

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 ...

nominee

Basant Soren Basant Soren is an Indian Politician and a member of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha political party. He is the current cabinet minister for ministry of roads & buildings and construction & water resources in Government of Jharkhand and a member of J ...

Personal life

He is the son of Late Shri Kedarnath Poddar, a wholesale cloth merchant from Gumla, Jharkhand. After completing his schooling in Gumla High School and St. Xavier's College, Ranchi, he moved to Bangalore to do his Mechanical Engineering from M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology. He is married to Nirmala Poddar and they both reside in Ranchi, Jharkhand.

Career

A well known businessman; he started his career with establishing Miki Wire Works Pvt. Ltd. in the year 1977 in Mahilong, Ranchi. In the career span of almost forty years, he has expanded his wire manufacturing capacity to all parts of the country - Visakhapatnam, Bangalore and Nagpur. Manufacturing mainly pre-cast concrete wire in a varied range of diameters to cater to the infrastructure industry. He has been actively involved in various groups and organisations, namely: # Past Chairman - Steel Wire Manufacturers Association of India (2003-2006) # Past President - Federation of Jharkhand Chamber of Commerce & Industries, Ranchi (1994-1995) # Past President - Jharkhand Small Industries Association # Director - Wire Association International # Present member of Bureau of Indian Standards sub-committee on Long Products # Present Trustee with Sri Sri Ravishankar Vidya Mandir Trust of Art of Living, Bangalore

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Poddar, Mahesh 1958 births Living people Rajya Sabha members from Jharkhand Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Jharkhand