Madan Sahni

Madan Sahni is an Indian Politician from Bihar. He belongs to Janata Dal (United).^[1] He has been elected thrice to the legislative assembly and he represents Bahadurpur (Vidhan Sabha constituency). He has also represented Gaura Bauram constituency (2015-2020). ^[2][3]

Madan Sahani
Member of the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Assumed office 2020
Preceded by	Bhola Yadav
Constituency	Bahadurpur Assembly constituency
Minister of Social Welfare Government of Bihar
In office 9 February 2021 – 28 January 2024
Chief Minister	Nitish Kumar
Preceded by	Ashok Choudhary
Succeeded by	Shrawan Kumar
Personal details
Nationality	Indian
Political party	Janata Dal (United)

Political life

Madan Sahni's political career has seen a meteoric rise, starting from Panchayat to Bihar legislative Assembly. He was elected to Zila Parishad and later won the District Board Chairman election. Soon, due to his social works and ground understanding of politics, he was given JD(U) symbol to contest from Bahadurpur constituency. He successfully contested that election. In the next election (2015), he was shifted to Gaura Bauram constituency which he won too by a bigger margin, thus being inducted as Cabinet Minister. In the 2020 election, he made a comeback to his home constituency of Bahadurpur and won. He is currently serving as Social Welfare Minister of Bihar.^[4]

2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly Election

Bahadurpur (Vidhan Sabha constituency)
Result Status
O.S.N.	Candidate	Party	EVM Votes	Postal Votes	Total Votes	% of Votes
1	Devendra Kumar Jha	Lok Jan Shakti Party	16839	34	16873	9.48
2	Madan Sahni	Janata Dal (United)	68432	106	68538	38.5
3	Mohammad Salauddin	Bahujan Samaj Party	1567	10	1577	0.89
4	Ramesh Choudhary	Rashtriya Janata Dal	65617	292	65909	37.03
5	Arun Thakur	Log Jan Party - Secular,	1301	1	1302	0.73
6	Krishna Kumar Das	Rashtriya Jan Vikas Party	1106	0	1106	0.62
7	Priyanka Singh	The Plurals Party	810	1	811	0.46
8	Birendra Kumar Paswan	Vanchit Bahujan Aaghadi	1040	1	1041	0.58
9	Manish Kumar	Bhartiya Garibmazdoor Party,	511	1	512	0.29
10	Ram Prabhanjan Choudhary	Rashtriya Jan Jan Party	1696	3	1699	0.95
11	Rohit Kumar Paswan	Aazad Samaj Party (Kanshi Ram)	1529	2	1531	0.86
12	Vikram Singh	Bhartiya Sablog Party	2443	0	2443	1.37
13	Baldeo Ram	Independent	3570	0	3570	2.01
14	Mahendra Sahani	Independent	2288	0	2288	1.29
15	Binay Kumar Singh	Independent	4938	0	4938	2.77
16	NOTA	None of the Above	3866	7	3873	2.18
	Total		177553	458	178011