Barkagaon Assembly constituency explained

Barkagaon Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in the Indian state of Jharkhand under Hazaribagh district.^{[1] [2]} It consists of three blocks namely Barkagaon, Keredari and Patratu.

Indian National Congress MLAs in Jharkhand claimed that their colleague, Barkagaon's current MLA Nirmala Devi, was arrested on 25 August 2015 for a murder in the Hazaribagh district 9 days before.^[3] Fellow MLA, Irfan Ansari of Jamtara constituency, condemned the arrest, alleging that the government is trying to attack INC legislators by falsely accusing them of crimes they never committed. Its come under Hazaribagh district.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

1952 - 2000

Earlier Barkagaon constituency was the part of Bihar Legislative Assembly.

Election	Member	Party
	Shashank Manjari
	Mahesh Ram
	Kailash Pati Singh
1980[4]	Ramendra Kumar
1985[5]
1990[6]
1995[7]
2000

2000 - present

On 15 November 2000, Jharkhand was carved out from Bihar. The 1st Jharkhand Assembly elections were conducted in 2005.

Year	Member	Party
	Nirmala Devi
2024	Roshan Lal Choudhary		Bharatiya Janata Party

Election Results

Assembly election 2000

See also

• Vidhan Sabha
• List of states of India by type of legislature

References

• Schedule – XIII of Constituencies Order, 2008 of Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008 of the Election Commission of India http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/CurrentElections/CONSOLIDATED_ORDER%20_ECI%20.pdf

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Notes and References

1. Web site: AC & PC List- Jharkhand . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20191218152343/http://164.100.150.3/ceoweb_bk/ACPCList.htm . 18 December 2019.
2. Web site: Schedule – XIII of Constituencies Order, 2008 of Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies . . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20101005180821/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/CurrentElections/CONSOLIDATED_ORDER%20_ECI%20.pdf . 5 October 2010 . 13 October 2021 .
3. Web site: August 26, 2015. Alok K. N.. Mishra. Cong MLA arrested near assembly, say colleagues. 2021-09-30. The Times of India. en.
4. Web site: Bihar Assembly Election Results in 1980. 2021-09-30. Elections in India.
5. Web site: Bihar Assembly Election Results in 1985. 2021-09-30. Elections in India.
6. Web site: Bihar Assembly Election Results in 1990. 2021-09-30. Elections in India.
7. Web site: Bihar Assembly Election Results in 1995. 2021-09-30. Elections in India.