Manoj Manzil is an Indian politician from

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. He represented the CPIML Liberation in Tejashwi Yadav's Mahagathbandhan alliance during the

2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly Election The Bihar Legislative Assembly election was held in three phases through October–November to elect members to the Seventeenth Bihar Legislative Assembly. The term of the previous Sixteenth Legislative Assembly of Bihar ended on 29 November 20 ...

. Manzil has concentrated his political activity in Agiaon and has been organizing the Sadak Par School Movement in Bhojpur. He received 84,777 votes, 61.51% of total vote share, and was elected as the MLA from Agiaon in 2020.

History

Manzil was born in 1984 or 1985 to a family of landless

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labourers and brick kiln workers. His father was a cadre of the CPI(ML) and his uncle spent his life as part of the Jay Prakash movement. He managed to get into college in Arrah and taught students to make ends meet but was forced to drop out several times. He eventually became a Left activist. In 2015, he contested the elections from Agiaon as a CPI(ML)-L candidate but was jailed and came in third place. In 2018, he organized the ''Sadak Par School'' movement in Bhojpur district, where he and other cadres would teach students on the road to protest abysmal primary schooling in rural Bihar. The movement gained significant media attention and in response the government made several school reforms. In 2020, he contested the elections again and won a majority.

Conviction

Manoj Manzil along with 22 others were sentenced to

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in a case relating to the murder of JP Singh during the

2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election The Legislative Assembly election was held over five phases in Bihar through October–November 2015 before the end of the tenure of the prior Legislative Assembly of Bihar on 29 November 2015. In April 2015, the Janata Parivar Alliance group ...

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