Media:Example.oggMadhu Koda The new Chief Minister of Jharkhand Madhu Koda was born January 6, 1971 at Patahatu in West Singhbhum district, Jharkhand) is a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) in Jharkhand, a state of India. On Monday, September 18th, he was sworn in as the fifth Chief Minister of Jharkhand. | state_name=Jharkhand | | capital=Ranchi | latd = 23. ...

35 year-old Madhu Koda began his political career as an activist with the All Jharkhand Students Union, and eventually became associated with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). He won in the 2000 Assembly elections from Jaganathpur as a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate. In the government headed by Chief Minister Babulal Marandi, Madhu became the Panchayati Raj Minister. He subsequently held this post when Arjun Munda took over the reins in 2003. All Jharkhand Students Union, an organization fighting for statehood for the Jharkhand region of India. ... The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (English: National Volunteer Union) is a conservative right-wing nationalist organization in India. ... The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), literally meaning Indian Peoples Party, created in 1980, is one of the two major national political parties in India. ... The Panchayat (पंचायत in Devanagiri) is an Indian political system that groups five villages in a quincunx (four peripheral villages around a central one were laid out as the 5 side of a die). ... Arjun Munda (born January 5, 1968) is the Chief Minister of Jharkhand, a state of India. ...

During the 2005 Assembly Elections in Jharkhand, the BJP denied Koda a ticket. He contested as an Independent candidate and won from Jaganathpur once again, defeating his nearest rival from the Indian National Congress by over ten thousand votes. With a fractured mandate in the state, Koda agreed to support a BJP-led government led by Arjun Munda, taking over as the Minister of Mines and Geology.

In September 2006, Madhu and three other independent legislator's withdrew support to the Munda government, bringing it into the minority. In the subsequent period, the opposition United Progressive Alliance decided on him as consensus candidate to become Chief Minister. His government will include the participation of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, Rashtriya Janata Dal, United Goans Democratic Party, Nationalist Congress Party, All-India Forward Bloc, 3 independent MLA's (besides himself), and the outside support of the Indian National Congress and Communist Party of India - Marxist Leninist. He will be sworn in on September 18th, 2006.

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• Madhu Koda: Social activist-turned-politician
• Madhu Koda to be next Jharkhand CM
• DECODING KODA