Rohit Sahu (born 9 June 1978) is an Indian politician from

Chhattisgarh Chhattisgarh (; ) is a landlocked States and union territories of India, state in Central India. It is the List of states and union territories of India by area, ninth largest state by area, and with a population of roughly 30 million, the List ...

. He is an MLA from Rajim Assembly constituency in

Gariaband District Gariaband District is one of the 33 districts of Chhattisgarh. It has its headquarters at Gariaband town. The district was carved out of Raipur district in 2012. History The earliest history of the district is associated with Rajim. At the Ra ...

. He won the

2023 Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly election Legislative Assembly elections were held in Chhattisgarh in two phases on 2023 elections in India, 7 November and 17 November 2023 to elect all List of constituencies of the Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly, 90 members of Chhattisgarh Legislat ...

, representing the Bharatiya Janata Party.

Early life and education

Sahu is from

Rajim Rajim is a town which is proposed to be in Raipur district but officially in Gariaband district, Chhattisgarh, India. Rajim is named after Rajiv Lochan Mandir which is the main Hindu pilgrimage temple of Rajim dedicated to Vishnu. There is also ...

, Gariaband District, Chhattisgarh. He is the son of Vishnu Sahu. He completed his Class 12 through Chhattisgarh State Open School, Raipur in 2015. Later, he discontinued his studies.

Career

Sahu won from Rajim Assembly constituency representing the

Bharatiya Janata Party The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; , ) is a political party in India and one of the two major List of political parties in India, Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. BJP emerged out from Syama Prasad Mukherjee's ...

in the 2023 Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly election. He polled 96,423 votes and defeated his nearest rival, Amitesh Shukla of the

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party, or simply the Congress, is a political parties in India, political party in India with deep roots in most regions of India. Founded on 28 December 1885, it was the first mo ...

, by a margin of 11,911 votes.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sahu, Rohit 1978 births Living people Chhattisgarh politicians Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Chhattisgarh Chhattisgarh MLAs 2023–2028 People from Gariaband district