Amit Kumar Mandal

Amit Kumar Mandal (born c. 1984) is an Indian politician and a former Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA). He represented the Godda constituency in the Jharkhand Legislative Assembly from 2016 to 2024 as a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Early life and education Mandal was born in Godda, Jharkhand (then part of Bihar). His father, Raghu Nandan Mandal, was also a politician and represented Godda in the legislative assembly.

Mandal completed his schooling at Godda. He graduated with a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) degree in Computer Applications from Jaypee Institute of Information Technology in Noida in 2007. He later earned a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree in Marketing from the University of Bradford in England in 2011.

In the 2019 Jharkhand Legislative Assembly election, Mandal successfully retained the Godda seat as the BJP candidate, securing 87,578 votes and defeating Sanjay Prasad Yadav of the RJD by a margin of 4,512 votes. During his tenure, Mandal was honored with the Aadarsh Yuva Vidhayak Samman (Ideal Youth MLA Award) by the Bharatiya Chhatra Sansad (Indian Student Parliament) for his development work and contributions to parliamentary democracy.

Mandal contested the 2024 Jharkhand Legislative Assembly election from the Godda constituency but was defeated by Sanjay Prasad Yadav of the RJD, who polled 109,487 votes against Mandal's 88,016 votes.

Electoral history 2024 Assembly election

2019 Assembly election

2016 By-election