Bhubneshwar Prasad Mehta

Bhubneshwar Prasad Mehta is an Indian politician, affiliated with the Communist Party of India. He represented the Hazaribagh constituency of Jharkhand in the 14th Lok Sabha.

Biography

Mehta was born on 2 August 1940 in a poor farmer family belonging to Sokiyar 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.