Radhabinod Koijam (born 19 July 1948) is a politician from

Manipur Manipur () is a state in northeastern India with Imphal as its capital. It borders the Indian states of Assam to the west, Mizoram to the south, and Nagaland to the north and shares the international border with Myanmar, specifically t ...

. He briefly served as the 10th

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in 2001.

Political career

In 1995, Koijam was elected to

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candidate. Later, he joined the

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(now led by Uday Mandal). Koijam was sworn in as

on 15 February 2001. The government was however, short-lived. The coalition he was leading fell in May the same year. He was the president of the

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. In 2007 he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of

as a

candidate from Thangmeiband Assembly Constituency. In September 2015, Koijam changed his loyalties to

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along with Okram Joy Singh and

Yumnam Joykumar Singh Yumnam Joykumar Singh is an Indian politician and member of the National People's Party. He served as a deputy chief minister of Manipur from 2017 to 2022 in the N. Biren Singh led cabinet. Before entering politics he was an IPS officer w ...

looking forward for

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. He is a current member of the

Assembly election results

State Elections 2002 – Partywise Comparison for 9-Thangmeiband Constituency of Manipur
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