Manoj Singh Kushwaha is a former minister of

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. Kushwaha was the Minor Water Resources minister in the

Jitan Ram Manjhi Jitan Ram Manjhi (born 6 October 1944) is an Indian politician, serving as the Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises since 2024. He is currently a Member of Parliament from Gaya constituency and was Bihar's 23rd Chief Minister from ...

cabinet in 2014–15. He contested from the Kurhani Assembly constituency in February 2005, November 2005 and 2010 legislative assembly elections, and was victorious.

Political career

Kushwaha is a senior leader of

Janata Dal (United) Janata Dal (United) ("People's Party (United)"), abbreviated as JD(U), is a Social democracy, social-democratic and secular List of political parties in India, Indian political party, rooted mainly in East India, eastern and Northeast India, ...

and he was member of legislative assembly for 10 years continuously from 2005 to 2015 on the ticket of JDU. In 2015 legislative assembly elections to Bihar Assembly, the alliance of JDU and

Rashtriya Janata Dal The Rashtriya Janata Dal ( RJD; translation: National People's Party) is an Indian political party, mainly based in the state of Bihar. The party was founded in 1997 by Lalu Prasad Yadav. The party's support base has traditionally been Other ...

made him their candidate from the Kurhani constituency, but he was defeated by his rival candidate from the

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, Kedar Prasad Gupta. In 2020, when JDU once again changed its alliance and came together with

once again, against its former ally Rashtriya Janata Dal, Kushwaha was not the preferred choice for the candidature of the alliance from the Kurhani assembly. The Kurhani seat, from which he contested earlier in 2005 and 2010 was allotted to the Bhartiya Janata Party and JDU made him its candidate from the Minapur Assembly constituency. He refused to contest from Minapur Assembly Constituency. In December 2022, after the cancellation of Legislative Assembly membership of RJD MLA Anil Sahni on certain grounds, from the Kurhani Constituency, the bypolls were conducted and Kushwaha was made the candidate by the Mahagathbandan (the newly formed alliance of JDU under

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and RJD under

Tejashwi Yadav Tejashwi Prasad Yadav (born 9 November 1989) is an Indian politician and former professional cricketer who served for two terms as the deputy chief minister of Bihar. He is the son of former chief ministers of Bihar Lalu Prasad Yadav and Rabr ...

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{{reflist Janata Dal (United) politicians Bihar MLAs 2005–2010 Bihar MLAs 2010–2015 People from Muzaffarpur district Year of birth missing (living people) Living people State cabinet ministers of Bihar

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