Senior Jharkhand Mukti Morcha legislator from Nala constituency Ravindra Nath Mahto is set to be the Speaker of the fifth State Legislative Assembly. After days of speculations the Mahagathbandhan finalised the name of Mahto for the post on Monday and nominated him to be the Speaker of the House.
Chief Minister Hemant Soren announced on Monday that the name of Ravindra Nath Mahto has come for the Speaker’s post and no other name has come either from the ruling coalition’s side or the Opposition’s side. Since there is no other name for the post, election of Mahto is merely a formality to be completed in the House on Tuesday.
According to sources Ravindra Nath Mahto filed his nomination for the post in sex sets on Monday and all parties except the Opposition party BJP have acted as proposers for him. Leader of the House and Chief Minister Hemant Soren is the first proposer, while Alamgir Alam of Congress, Satyanand Bhokta of RJD, Sudesh Mahto of AJSU, Sarfaraz Ahmed of JMM were among other proposers.
Mahato has been elected MLA from Nala Assembly constituency for the third time in 2019 on JMM ticket. Earlier, in 2005 and 2014, he was elected as MLA from Nala on the ticket of JMM only. Considering Shibu Soren as his ideal, Mahto became active in the Jharkhand movement and he later started politics with the JMM.
With a Bachelor of Education degree, agriculture and politics are the main professions of Mahto, who has a son and a daughter. He was born on 12 January 1960 to father Golak Bihari Mahato and mother Roop Manjari Devi.
A seasoned politician in the State, Mahto is considered as a good orator and thinker.