Umesh Singh Kushwaha is a Former

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from Mahnar constituency. He is a member of

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. Kushwaha is the son of Vasudev Singh and hails from Kajri Bujurg village in the Vaishali district of Bihar. He studied at Acharya Narendra Dev College Shahpur Patori,

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. Besides being a politician he is also active in business and is a share holder in Lord Budhha food product private ltd. He is the current Bihar state President of

Political career

Umesh Kushwaha represents the

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represented this constituency but after its revival in 2008 the seat has been a stronghold of

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. In 2010 Legislative Assembly Elections when

was a member of

, Dr. Achyutanand of

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contested and won the seat but he was defeated by Kushwaha in the 2015 Elections with a large difference of 27,000 votes. Kushwaha was then a candidate of Mahagathbandhan (Grand Alliance) which included

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 ...

and

. Later the Grand Alliance was broken due to differences between the two major political parties. In 2020 Assembly Election to Bihar Legislative Assembly JD(U) again made its candidate from the Mahnar seat. Umesh lost the 2020 Assembly elections to Veena Devi, the wife of RJD strongman Rama Kishor Singh. The anti-incumbency situation in the state against ruling JD (U) and the step taken by

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to weaken JD (U) by placing its candidates against it and not against BJP resulted in defeat of a large number of sitting MLAs of JD (U). In January 2021, Kushwaha was appointed to the post of Bihar state president of

following the resignation of Bashishtha Narayan Singh on health grounds. The party's step was reported to be a part of the strategy to revive its decaying old socio-political coalition of Koeri and Kurmi caste, which needed revival after the poor performance of JD(U) in Bihar Assembly election 2020.

Controversies

Kushwaha has been involved in many controversies and has faced public criticism many a times. In one such incident, while he was to lay the foundation of a road construction project in the Baghchauna-Lavapur, a village falling within his constituency, he was hooted by the locals to the extent that he had to postpone his plan quickly. In 2018, the Block head of

Rashtriya Lok Samata Party Rashtriya Lok Samta Party (abbreviated as RLSP; translation: ''National People's Equity Party'') was a political party in India led by Upendra Kushwaha. It was launched on 3 March 2013 and was based in the state of Bihar. The party came into exi ...

for Jandaha, Manish Sahani was gunned down by unidentified gunmen. In the First Information Report, the case was lodged against nine persons, in which Kushwaha was made the prime accused. In 2019 the a car registered under the name of Kushwaha allegedly thrashed two bikers in which both died. While the JD (U) leader claimed that it was not owned by him; the incident was followed by widespread protest by the kins of the victims near JD (U) office at

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kushwaha, Umesh Janata Dal (United) politicians Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Bihar MLAs 2015–2020 People from Vaishali district