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Bhubneshwar Prasad Mehta

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Bhubneshwar Prasad Mehta
MP
ConstituencyHazaribagh
Personal details
Born (1940-08-02) 2 August 1940 (age 83)
Hazaribagh, Jharkhand
Political partyCPI
SpouseShakuntala Devi
Children1 son and 4 daughters
ResidenceHazaribagh
As of 25 September, 2006
Source: [1]

Bhubneshwar Prasad Mehta (born 2 August 1940) is an Indian politician, affiliated to the Communist Party of India. He represented the Hazaribagh constituency of Jharkhand in the 14th Lok Sabha. Early life. He was born in a poor farmer family belonging to koeri(Kushwaha) community. 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.