Madan Sahni

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Madan Sahani
Member of the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Assumed office
2020
Preceded byBhola Yadav
ConstituencyBahadurpur Assembly constituency
Minister of Social Welfare Government of Bihar
In office
9 February 2021 – 28 January 2024
Chief MinisterNitish Kumar
Preceded byAshok Choudhary
Succeeded byShrawan Kumar
Personal details
NationalityIndian
Political partyJanata Dal (United)

Madan Sahni is an Indian Politician from Bihar. He belongs to Janata Dal (United).[1] He has been elected thrice to the legislative assembly and he represents Bahadurpur (Vidhan Sabha constituency). He has also represented Gaura Bauram constituency (2015-2020). [2][3]

Political life[edit]

Madan Sahni's political career has seen a meteoric rise, starting from Panchayat to Bihar legislative Assembly. He was elected to Zila Parishad and later won the District Board Chairman election. Soon, due to his social works and ground understanding of politics, he was given JD(U) symbol to contest from Bahadurpur constituency. He successfully contested that election. In the next election (2015), he was shifted to Gaura Bauram constituency which he won too by a bigger margin, thus being inducted as Cabinet Minister. In the 2020 election, he made a comeback to his home constituency of Bahadurpur and won. He is currently serving as Social Welfare Minister of Bihar.[4]

2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly Election

Bahadurpur (Vidhan Sabha constituency)
Result Status
O.S.N. Candidate Party EVM Votes Postal Votes Total Votes % of Votes
1 Devendra Kumar Jha Lok Jan Shakti Party 16839 34 16873 9.48
2 Madan Sahni Janata Dal (United) 68432 106 68538 38.5
3 Mohammad Salauddin Bahujan Samaj Party 1567 10 1577 0.89
4 Ramesh Choudhary Rashtriya Janata Dal 65617 292 65909 37.03
5 Arun Thakur Log Jan Party - Secular, 1301 1 1302 0.73
6 Krishna Kumar Das Rashtriya Jan Vikas Party 1106 0 1106 0.62
7 Priyanka Singh The Plurals Party 810 1 811 0.46
8 Birendra Kumar Paswan Vanchit Bahujan Aaghadi 1040 1 1041 0.58
9 Manish Kumar Bhartiya Garibmazdoor Party, 511 1 512 0.29
10 Ram Prabhanjan Choudhary Rashtriya Jan Jan Party 1696 3 1699 0.95
11 Rohit Kumar Paswan Aazad Samaj Party (Kanshi Ram) 1529 2 1531 0.86
12 Vikram Singh Bhartiya Sablog Party 2443 0 2443 1.37
13 Baldeo Ram Independent 3570 0 3570 2.01
14 Mahendra Sahani Independent 2288 0 2288 1.29
15 Binay Kumar Singh Independent 4938 0 4938 2.77
16 NOTA None of the Above 3866 7 3873 2.18
Total 177553 458 178011

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Bahadurpur Election Result 2020 Live Updates: Madan Sahni of JDU Wins". News18. 10 November 2020. Retrieved 10 November 2020.
  2. ^ "Election Commission of India". results.eci.gov.in. Retrieved 10 November 2020.
  3. ^ "Election Commission of India". results.eci.gov.in. Retrieved 10 November 2020.
  4. ^ "Officers don't listen to me, not satisfied with car, house I got: Bihar minister Madan Sahni resigns". India Tv. Retrieved 1 July 2021.