Babu Lal Marandi
| Babulal Marandi | |
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| Member of Parliament for Kodarma |
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In office 2004 -2014 |
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| Preceded by | Tilakdhari Singh |
| Succeeded by | Ravindra Kumar Ray |
| 1st Chief Minister of Jharkhand | |
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In office 15 November 2000 – 17 March 2003 |
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| Preceded by | New Post |
| Succeeded by | Arjun Munda |
| Personal details | |
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11 January 1958 Giridih, Jharkhand |
| Political party | JVM(P) |
| Spouse(s) | Shanti Devi |
| Children | 2 sons |
| Residence | Giridih |
| Religion | Hindu |
| As of 9 November, 2006 Source: [1] |
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Babu Lal Marandi (born 11 January 1958) was the first Chief Minister of Jharkhand. He is the founder and national president of Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik). He was the Member of Parliament from Kodarma (Lok Sabha constituency) in 2009. He was the Minister of State, Forests & Environment, Govt. of India in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government.
Babulal was born in a remote Kodia Bank village under Tisri block of Giridih district of the now Jharkhand province.
After passing high school, he moved to Giridih College from where he did his intermediate and graduation. It was there that he came in contact with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.
He worked as a teacher in a village primary school for a year before giving up the job to work for the Sangh Parivar. He served as the organising secretary of the Jharkhand region of Vishwa Hindu Parishad.
In 1983, he moved to Dumka and worked in the Santhal Pargana division, which he toured extensively. In those days, he used to live in the RSS office in Dumka.
In 1991, the Bharatiya Janata Party gave him the ticket to contest from the Dumka (Lok Sabha constituency), but he lost. In 1996, he lost to Shibu Soren by just 5,000 odd votes. The BJP, in the meantime, made him president of the party's Jharkhand unit.
It was under Marandi's leadership that the party won 12 out of 14 Lok Sabha seats in Jharkhand region in the 1998 election. Marandi, a Santal, led the tally by defeating Jharkhand Mukti Morcha supremo Shibu Soren, another Santhal.
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