Bhubneshwar Prasad Mehta
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Bhubneshwar Prasad Mehta | |
|---|---|
| MP | |
| Constituency | Hazaribagh |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 2 August 1940 |
| Party | Communist Party of India |
| Spouse | Shakuntala Devi |
| Children | 1 son and 4 daughters |
As of 25 September, 2006 Source: | |
Bhubneshwar Prasad Mehta (born 2 August 1940) is an Indian politician, affiliated with the Communist Party of India. He represented the Hazaribagh constituency of Jharkhand in the 14th Lok Sabha.[1]
Mehta was born on 2 August 1940 in a poor farmer family belonging to Koeri community.[2][3][4] He worked as a coal union leader in his early days. He is known as Stalin of Jharkhand. He won the 2004 Lok Sabha elections on a CPI ticket, defeating BJP's Yashwant Sinha, who served as the finance minister in the Vajpayee government. However, Mehta lost the next election to Yashwant Sinha.
