| Office | Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
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|---|---|
| Office | Member of Bihar Legislative Assembly |
| Office | National General Secretary of Rashtriya Janata Dal
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| Predecessor | Manjay Lal |
| Successor | Ashwamedh Devi
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| Constituency | Samastipur (Lok Sabha constituency)
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| Born | 1966-11-03 (age 60)
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| Political party | Rashtriya Janata DalFile:Indian Election Symbol Hurricane Lamp.png |
| Spouse | Seema Prasad |
| Children | 3
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Alok Kumar Mehta (born 3 November 1966[1]) is an Indian politician from the state of Bihar. He is a founder member of Rashtriya Janata Dal and has served as Principal General Secretary of the party. Mehta is said to be political mentor of Tejashwi Yadav .[2]
Political career
A son of Tulsidas Mehta,[3] Alok Kumar Mehta was elected a Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) for the Ujiyarpur state assembly constituency in the 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election. He served as Minister to the Department of Co-operatives in the Government of Bihar,[3] until 2017 when the Chief Minister, Nitish Kumar resigned. His sister Suheli Mehta is also a politician who joined Janata Dal (United), a rival political party of RJD in 2017. [4]
Mehta has also been a Member of Parliament from the Ujiarpur Lok Sabha constituency in 2004. He later lost the seat to Ashwamedh Devi, the widow of veteran Pradip Mahto in 2009.[5]Mehta has been associated with Rashtriya Janata Dal at different times under with different charges. He has been the incharge of the RJD for seven states and National General Secretary of youth RJD. He also served as the state General Secretary of Youth Rashtriya Janata Dal. [6]
In his capacity as the Member of Parliament, he has served as the Member of Committee on Private Members` Bills and Resolutions, Member of Committee on Transport, Tourism and Culture; Member of Committee on Absence of Members from the Sittings of the House; Member of Parliamentary Forum on Youth and Member of Committee on Transport, Tourism & Culture.[6]
Mehta has also served as the General Secretary of the RJD. In August 2020, while serving in his capacity as the General Secretary of the party he expelled the three rebel MLAs of the party amidst the upcoming polls of 2020 to Bihar Legislative Assembly. [7]
In 2020 elections to Bihar assembly, Mehta defeated Sheel Kumar Roy of Bhartiya Janata Party with a margin of over 23000 votes to retain Ujiarpur seat.[8]
References
- ↑ Member profile - 134. Bihar Vidhan Sabha.
- ↑ Nitish Kumar's Bihar team: 7 Masters, 9 graduates and 12 who went to school. Indian Express(23 November 2015).
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Nitish Kumar's Bihar team: 7 Masters, 9 graduates and 12 who went to school(2015-11-22).
- ↑ RJD-minister-kin-joins-dal. The Telegraph.
- ↑ ujiarpur-grapples-with-new-caste-equations-delimitation-changes-constituency-s-constitution-not-its-share-of-problems. The Telegraph.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Members profile.
- ↑ Rashtriya Janata Dal expels 3 MLAs for anti-party activities. Newsonair.com.
- ↑ Ujiarpur election result. news18.