Barkagaon Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in the Indian state of Jharkhand under Hazaribagh district. 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. 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 Election MemberPartyBihar Legislative Assembly 1952 Kamakhya Narain Singh 1957 Shashank Manjari 1962 1967 Mahesh Ram 1969 1972 1977 Kailash Pati Singh 1980 Ramendra Kumar 1985 1990 1995 Loknath Mahto 2000Jharkhand Legislative Assembly 2005 Loknath Mahto 2009 Yogendra Sao 2014 Nirmala Devi 2019 Amba Prasad 2024Roshan Lal Choudhary
Election results
Assembly election 2024
Assembly election 2019
Assembly election 2014
Assembly election 2009
Assembly election 2005
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