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'''Brahmanand Mandal''' (born 14 January 1947) is a [[Bihar]]i politician who served as a member of the [[Lok Sabha]] from [[Munger (Lok Sabha constituency)|Munger constituency]] for three terms under three different political parties: in [[1991 Indian general election|1991]], as a member of the [[Communist Party of India]], in [[1996 Indian general election|1996]] under the [[Samta Party]], and re-elected in [[1999 Indian general election|1999]] as part of [[Janata Dal (United)]].

In 1991 he was elected to the [[10th Lok Sabha]] on the CPI ticket, and served on first on the Consultative Committee of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, then on the Standing Committee; in 1994, he became a Member of the Standing Committee on Railways. In 1996, he joined [[George Fernandes]]' [[Samta Party]] and became a member of their National Executive. He was elected to the [[11th Lok Sabha]], in which he served as the Samta [[Chief Whip]], and as a member of the Committee on Food, Civil Supplies and Public Distribution, and of the Consultative Committee, Ministry of Railways. He became Secretary General of the Samta Party of Bihar, and the All India Secretary General of the Samta Party. He was not elected to the [[12th Lok Sabha]], losing to [[Bijoy Kumar Bijoy]] of [[Rashtriya Janata Dal]], but was once more elected to the [[13th Lok Sabha]] (defeating Bijoy Kumar Bijoy 346,615 (49.15%) to 46.05% 324,800 (46.05%).

== Samta merger ==

When in October 2003, [[George Fernandes]], the president of the Samta Party, announced that the party would be completely merging with the [[Janata Dal (United)]], a minority in the SP led by Mandal refused to go along with the merger. The [[Election Commission of India]] decided that the merger was not technically complete and so a faction was allowed to function under the Samta Party name.<ref>{{usurped|[https://web.archive.org/web/20110427160033/http://www.hinduonnet.com/2004/03/21/stories/2004032104480801.htm "EC recognises old Samata Party"]}}, ''The Hindu'' (Sunday, 21 March 2004)</ref> He unsuccessfully ran in the 2006 by-election from [[Nalanda (Lok Sabha constituency)]] in 2006; and ran for the [[15th Lok Sabha]] in Munger as an independent, but was not successful, coming in with less than 1% of the vote<ref>[http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/pconstituency.aspx?eid=263&cid=28 "Lok Sabha Election 2009 - Bihar Constituency: Munger (28)" ''empoweringindia.org.'']</ref> He appointed Uday Mandal as a Bihar state president of [[Samta Party|Samata Party]]. In 2020 Bihar assembly election party contest on 10 seat in the leadership of Uday Mandal.

[[Category:Samta Party politicians]]