2024 Assembly Elections Results of Barhait Assembly Constituency

The coming 2024 assembly election to the Barhait seat will be held on November 20, 2024

Contesting Candidates for Barhait Assembly Elections 2024    

Party	Candidate	Votes Polled
JMM	Hemant Soren
BJP
CPI (M)

Hemant Soren, the current Chief Minister of Jharkhand,  is the sitting MLA from Barhait assembly seat, located in the Sahebganj district in the Santhal Pargana region of the mineral rich state of Jharkhand. He had won the seat in 2014 and 2019

Reserved for the candidates belonging to the scheduled tribes, Barhait is one of the six assembly seats that combine to create the parliamentary constituency of the Rajmahal. Other five assembly segments are Litipara, Maheshpur, Rajmahal, Borio and Pakur.  

 

2024 Assembly Elections Results of Baharagora Assembly Constituency

Contesting Candidates for Baharagora Assembly Elections 2024    

Party	Candidate	Votes Polled
BJP
Congress
CPI (M)	Swapan Kumar Mahato

Located in the district of East Singhbhum of Jharkhand, Baharagora assembly constituency is one of the six assembly segments of the Jamshedpur parliamentary constituency. 

Ghatsila, Potka, Jugsalai, Jamshedpur East and Jamshedpur West are other five assembly constituencies that unite to form the Jamshedpur Lok Sabha seat.

 

 

2024 Assembly Elections Results of Bagodar Assembly Constituency

 

The coming 2024 assembly election to the Bagodar seat will be held on November 20, 2024

Contesting Candidates for Bagodar Assembly Elections 2024    

Party	Candidate	Votes Polled
BJP	Nagendra Mahto
CPI (ML) (L)	Vinod Kumar Singh

Bagodar, one of the six assembly segments in the Koderma parliamentary constituency in the mineral rich state of Jharkhand, is currently represented by Vinod Kumar Singh of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Liberation) CPI (ML) (L) who won the seat by defeating the then incumbent BJP MLA Nagendra Mahto.  

Located in the Giridih district of Jharkhand, Bagodar is one of the six assembly seats that unite to form the Lok Sabha constituency of the Koderma which is currently held by BJP’s Annpurna Devi who won the seat by defeating Vinod Kumar Singh by a margin of  3,77,014 votes in the 2024 parliamentary general elections.

Electoral History of Bagodar Assembly Constituency

While Nagendra Mahto had won the seat on the ticket of BJP in 2014, Vinod Kumar Singh has been elected in 2019, 2009 and 2005.  

Bagodar assembly constituency has earlier been represented by his father Mahendra Prasad Singh.

 

2024 Assembly Elections Results of Baghmara Assembly Constituency

The coming 2024 assembly election to the Baghmara seat will be held on November 20, 2024. In the 2024 assembly elections to the Baghmara assembly constituency in the Dhanbad district of Jharkhand, BJP has fielded Shatrughan Mahto,  brother of Dhullu Mahto (the current Lok Sabha MP from Dhanbad parliamentary seat). Congress has nominated Jaleshwar Mahto. 

Contesting Candidates for Baghmara Assembly Elections 2024    

Party	Candidate	Votes Polled
BJP	Shatrughan Mahto
Congress	Jaleshwar Mahto

  

Electoral History of Baghmara Assembly Constituency

In 2019 assembly elections, the Baghmara assembly constituency had elected Dhullu Mahto who won the seat by defeating Congress candidate Jaleshwar Mahto. Earlier Dhullu Mahto had won the seat in 2014 on the ticket of BJP and in 2009 as a candidate of Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik) which has now merged with the BJP.

Earlier Jaleshwar Mahato had emerged victorious from the Baghmara assembly seat in 2005 and 2000. 

Baghmara is one of the six assembly seats that unite to form the Lok Sabha constituency of the Giridih  which is currently held by Chandra Prakash Choudhary of  All Jharkhand Students Union or AJSU Party. BJP and AJSU Party are in alliance for the 2024 assembly elections. 

Other five assembly segments of the Giridih parliamentary constituency are Giridih, Dumri, Gomia, Bermo and Tundi. 

Tomb of Parvez Mirza To Be Restored

The archaeological department of Uttar Pradesh will execute a conservation project to preserve a Mughal era monument from further decay. 

The structure situated between Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) conserved  Itimad-ud-Daula’s tomb and Chini Ka Ruza in Agra is said to be tomb of Sultan Parvez (Parviz), grandson of Akbar and second son of Jahangir. His daughter Nadira Banu Begum was the wife of Dara Shik oh, eldest son of Shah Jahan (son of Jahangir) and eldest brother of the sixth Mughal emperor Aurangzeb. Sahib-e-Jamal was Parviz’s mother. 

Bearing a striking resemblance to the mausoleum of megalomaniac 14th century Mongol leader Timur in Samarkand in Uzbekistan, Parvez Mirza’s tomb is in a shambles now.  Inverted lotus at the dome has been disfigured and lime mortar plaster over its walls has crumbled.

Timur’s mausoleum  is known as the Gur-e Amir mausoleum. 

Parvez died of delirium tremens in 1626 AD in Burhanpur (now in Madhya Pradesh). 

Several Mughal rulers and princes were addicted to alcohol and had died of delirium tremens.  Murad and Daniyal, the sons of Akbar,  had succumbed to delirium tremens. 

Babar, the founder of the Mughal Empire, was an opium eater and loved to drink fine wines. 

 

Taj Mahal Crowning Glory of Mughal Architecture

Taj Mahal is an architectural feat that marks a height of Mughal architecture. 

Synonymous with beauty and elegance, the world beating landmark of Taj Mahal was built by the order of fifth Mughal emperor Shah Jahan between 1631 and 1648 in memory of his favourite wife, Mumtaz Mahal who was his third wife. Mumtaz Mahal died in 1631 in childbirth at the age of 39 at Burhanpur,    

Taj Mahal is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Taj Mahal was the result of the labour of over 12, 000 workers, over a period of 22 years. The cost incurred on the construction in those times was 50 (5 million) Rupees.

Sometimes, the design of Taj Mahal is credited to a Venetian, Gernimo Verrones. According to whispers, Shah Jahan had its architects blinded, so that they could never again replicate a monument so grand and majestic. However, these claims are not verified and not confirmed by the historians.

Sacking of Hooghly Port by Shah Jahan in 1632

Mast of a Portuguese Ship at Bandel Church, Hooghly / Image Credit 

Portugal was the first European power to establish factories and trading settlements in India in the early 16th century. In 1579–80, a Portuguese captain named Pedro Tavares received a firman from Mughal emperor to establish a city in Bengal for the Portuguese. The Portuguese were also allowed to preach their religion.  As a consequence, a Portuguese colony was established at Hughli (in 1579 AD). The famous church of Bandel in Hooghly was built by the Portuguese. 

The friendly attitude of Akbar towards the Portuguese was continued by his son and next Mughal emperor Jahangir.  

Jahangir died in October 1627 and after a short interregnum marked by violent conflict among the other claimants for the throne, his son Shah Jahan became emperor in 1628 by eliminating all other possible contenders to the throne. Shahryar Mirza (youngest son of Jahangir), Dawar Bakhsh (Grandson of Jahangir and Khusrau’s eldest son), two sons of Akbar's son Daniyal (Tahmuras and Hushang) were all executed.  

Shah Jahan was harbouring a grudge against the Portuguese as the latter did not side with him when he rebelled against his father Jahangir in 1622. 

Added to this, the casus belli for the sack of Hooghly by Shah Jahan in 1932 was the abduction of two slave girls of his consort Mumtaz Mahal by the Portuguese in 1624 during the reign of Jahangir. The Portuguese, on the other hand, became involved with the slave trade. This was rankling in Shah Jahan's mind. Hence he ordered Bengal governor Qasim Khan to crush the Portuguese. In 1632 Qasim Khan captured Hooghly after three months. The Bandel church was burnt down during the sacking of Hooghly.   

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