Fateh Bahadur Kushwaha
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Fateh Bahadur Singh[1] | |
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| Member of the Bihar Legislative Assembly | |
| In office 2020–2025 | |
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| Party | Rashtriya Janata Dal |
| Spouse | Kusum Devi |
| Occupation | Business & Politics |
Fateh Bahadur Singh commonly known as Fateh Bahadur Kushwaha[2] is a member of Bihar Legislative Assembly for the 17th Bihar Assembly. He was elected as a candidate of Rashtriya Janata Dal from the Dehri Assembly constituency of Rohtas district. In the 2020 Assembly elections, he defeated Satyanarayan Singh of Bhartiya Janata Party, who was his nearest political rival.[3]
Singh, who was a businessman in his earlier life, was aspiring to ticket from Upendra Kushwaha's Rashtriya Lok Samata Party to contest from Dehri Assembly constituency in 2015. However, in 2015 Bihar Assembly elections, he was denied the ticket by the party. In 2019, the by-polls were conducted in the Dehri constituency, to fill the vacancy arising out of the revocation of the membership of Muhammad Ilyas Hussain in Bihar Legislative Assembly. Hussain was convicted in a corruption case and the Bhartiya Janata Party's candidate Satyanarayan Singh defeated the other candidate, Mohammad Firoz Husain placed by Rashtriya Janata Dal.[4][5]
In 2020 assembly elections, Fateh Bahadur Singh defeated Satyanarayan Singh Yadav with a margin of 464 votes. The nearest runner-up, Yadav got 63,721 votes.[6]
In 2023, there was a raid by Income Tax Department on the Hotel owned by Singh. It was said to be a statewide exercise run by IT Department to clean up the administration.[7]